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UNFPA commits to Pacific climate change resilience work through RMNCAH
Nadi, Fiji (28 October 2015) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) committed its support to Pacific nations Wednesday (October 28) on the countries' efforts towards advancing resilience to... Read more
Reproductive health and rights essential for climate change resilience
Humanitarian situations and fragile communities are going to increase, and in the Pacific region, this will be compounded by population movements as the tentacles of climate change reach into the... Read more
Adolescents in climate change adaptation
ADOLESCENTS are living the most critical phase of their lives, wrought with uncertainties brought on by rapid physical (biological) and emotional changes as they struggle to contextualise the... Read more
Pacific leadership pivotal in global health initiative - Every Women, Every Child, Every Adolescent, Everywhere
As nations that greet the new day before any other region in the world, the Pacific collection are well-positioned to claim a lead role in the realisation of global strategy for women's, children's... Read more
Preventable deaths that deny us collective progress
Every day, 800 women and 7700 newborns die from childbirth and pregnancy complications which are preventable; an alarming 7300 are simultaneously experiencing stillbirth - realities which should have... Read more
A JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Australian commitment to UN joint programme for Pacific mother, child and adolescent health kicks off investment in Global Goals for Sustainable Development
SUVA, FIJI. 30 SEPTEMBER 2015 - Three Pacific Island countries using integrated approaches to health delivery for women, new-borns, children and adolescents will benefit from a nearly AU$7 million UN... Read more
Transformative goals for inclusive progress: the Sustainable Development Goals
Humanity will celebrate yet another milestone this week when the gavel signals consensus and adoption of the Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in two days, at the... Read more
Development through sport - girls journey to national meet
AS an all-girls school from the Western Division, Jasper Williams High School ended the Fiji secondary schools basketball competition last week quite satisfied with an all-star selection, just two... Read more
A health response to climate change
The relocation of villages as rising sea levels spoil crops among other things, has begun for several countries across the region including Fiji. In Tuvalu, the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam in... Read more
Humanity in times of crisis
A nursing graduate of 1968, Margaret Saul did not attain midwifery prerequisites until 1987: with good reason having to juggle a nursing career and family-- which involved raising eight children,... Read more