AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoEl Niño Preparedness: SPREP is urging Pacific communities to start practical planning after the WMO’s Pacific Regional Climate Centre declared an El Niño event underway, warning impacts will vary by country and stressing early action. Weight-loss Drug Warning: Doctors in Victoria are alerting the public about unapproved “retatrutide” sold online, linking it to acute liver toxicity cases and urging people to avoid black-market knock-offs. Homebirth Safety Alert: A coronial court heard how a “birth keeper” delayed calling an ambulance during a freebirth after postpartum bleeding worsened, raising serious concerns about emergency consent and response. Ocean Health & Nutrition: Fiji and Panama launched a Mesopelagic (“twilight zone”) Conservation Challenge to protect the ocean’s food web and carbon role, targeting threats like fishing and deep-sea mining. Pacific Youth Sexual Health: A new Pleasurenesia guide argues Pacific-led conversations about pleasure and wellbeing should shape youth SRHR programming, citing high teenage pregnancy, rising young HIV, and ongoing gender-based violence in the region.
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