AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoPacific health outreach: John Margerison partnered with the Esesson Foundation to deliver Vanuatu’s largest free health outreach this September, funding medical and logistics supplies and helping provide care for more than 2,600 people across general medicine, women’s health, dental and orthopaedics. Women, climate and water decisions: Pacific research for COP31 highlights that women’s exclusion from water decision-making is driving wider gendered harm from climate change, with Vanuatu among the countries whose advocates were interviewed. Sea rescue and medical support: Indonesian Navy hospital ship KRI WSH-991 rescued 11 Papua New Guineans adrift after a boat engine failure while en route to Vanuatu, providing medical checks, food, clean water, blankets and rest. Health diplomacy: Vanuatu’s Health Minister Robert Bohn took part in India–Pacific talks under FIPIC at UNGA81, where ministers discussed cooperation on healthcare alongside climate action and disaster resilience. Pacific life expectancy gap: New analysis says Pacific life expectancy has risen but remains below global progress, with Vanuatu noted as moving from below-average to above-average.
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