Competition raises awareness on non-communicable diseases in the Pacific

The Pacific Community has launched a regional photography competition in an effort to creatively bring into focus the immense impact that Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has on Pacific Island countries and territories. The “Focus on NCDs in the Pacific…

Agreement boosts disease response in Pacific Islands

Modules in disease outbreak investigation and public health surveillance, and a field epidemiology project, are part of a redeveloped postgraduate qualification programme that will strengthen public health capacity in the Pacific Islands region. The…

Zoom - Ngali nut – from forest floor to health food store

How does a tasty nut from a remote forest in Solomon Islands get harvested, baked, certified as organic produce and end up for sale in health food shops thousands of kilometres away in New Caledonia? Ngali nut farmers Mzipa Ghumi and Dorence Walter…

Pacific Nutrition Bingo promotes healthy eating

The Pacific Community (SPC) has released its latest version of Pacific Nutrition Bingo, a fun educational tool to promote healthy eating and combat the serious threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the region. Released in the lead up to World…

DevPolicy Blog: Diabetes remains major health challenge in the Pacific

Participants at the Pacific NCD Summit, co-hosted by the Kingdom of Tonga and SPC, June 2016 My thanks to the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, for publishing this post from me on one of the major issues for our…

Wallis and Futuna scaling up action on non-communicable diseases

To stem the non-communicable diseases (NCD) crisis in Wallis and Futuna, community leaders have committed to declare public community areas smoke-free and to cultivate gardens to promote consumption of healthy local foods. They will also exclude sugar-…

Addressing NCDs through law, trade and sustainable development

Twenty legal, trade and health department representatives from across the Pacific are in Fiji this week to examine the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) burden in the region and the role of the law in preventing and controlling NCDs, particularly in the…

Exploring Pacific funding mechanism option to turn the tide on NCDs

Pacific Island countries and territories at the inaugural Pacific Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Summit have expressed their support for a Pacific funding mechanism to better balance responses to the mammoth burden of NCDs in the region. In this regard…

Pasifika Plates: promoting healthy Pacific food

The Pacific Community (SPC) is releasing a potentially life-changing cookbook to promote healthy eating to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Pacific Islands.

Pacific Community Remarks by Director General Dr Colin Tukuitonga at the Opening Ceremony of the Pacific NCD Summit

Salutations ‘E Ho’o ‘Afio, Kingi Tupou Ono, fakafeta’i e afeitaulalo ‘a e ‘Afiona ‘o ha’elea ‘a e fakataha’anga ni
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