Most dengue fever outbreaks are not slowing down in the Pacific but there are hopes this will change as the weather gets ...

Siufaga Simi, Principal Health Promotion Officer, Ministry of Health, Samoa The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Pacific comprise diverse economies distributed across 30 million square ...

Tonga's Ministry of Health says 22 new cases of dengue fever were picked up in recent tests, bringing the total cumulative ...

Big clean up campaigns are underway in Rarotonga to try stamp out mosquito breeding grounds. The Cook Islands declared a dengue fever outbreak last Thursday (Friday NZT). Outbreaks have also been ...

CANBERRA: New research from the Lowy Institute shows the world’s poorest countries will make record high debt repayments to ...

The Pacific Vision for Adapted Crops and Soil (PACS) was officially launched this week in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on the margins ...

Commitment to end tobacco must translate to bold actions on the ground, said Dr Tara Singh Bam. He exhorted the new government of Indonesia to sign and ratify the global tobacco treaty (formally ...

West warns Iran not to hit back as Israel launches revenge strikes - UK and US among nations seeking to keep Middle East from all-out war in wake of Israeli airstrikes on military targets with Tehran ...

Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change.