Press Releases

Health conducts National Annual Operation Plan and Budget for 2025

Health conducts National Annual Operation Plan and Budget for 2025 The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) is currently conducting its Annual Operation Plan (AOP) and Budget meeting for 2025 in Honiara. The AOP, which runs for the whole...

South Australian doctors head to Vanuatu in response to devastating earthquake

Release date: 22/12/24 Three SA Health staff will travel to Vanuatu as part of the Federal Government’s response to the tragic natural disaster that occurred in the country last week. Dr James Doube, a doctor based on Kangaroo Island, will head up...

ADB Provides $5 Million Grant for Vanuatu Earthquake Relief

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 December 2024) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided $5 million in contingent disaster financing to support emergency relief efforts in Vanuatu following the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the capital Port...

“Dispiriting, dangerous, anti-development” education and health cuts by nearly every country with World Bank and IMF loans

94 percent of countries (94 out of 100 countries) with current World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans have cut vital investments in public education, health and social protection over the past two years, according to a new report...

Vanuatu promotes safeguarding the environment and sustainability through waste initiatives

4 April 2024, Port Vila - Vanuatu continues to show leadership in waste management through its national efforts to safeguard the environment and promote sustainability through local initiatives. In March 2024, the Vanuatu Ministry of Climate...

Ministers of Health of Solomon Islands and Republic of Vanuatu sign Health Workers South South Cooperation MOU

Ministers of Health of Solomon Islands and Republic of Vanuatu sign Health Workers South South Cooperation MOU At the closure of the 8th Asia Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health recently held in Port Vila Republic of Vanuatu, Minister...

Minister of Health and Chair of Parliamentary Health Committee attend 8th Asia Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health

Minister of Health and Chair of Parliamentary Health Committee attend 8th Asia Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health MP for East Honiara, the Hon Morris Toiraena, Chair of Solomon Islands Parliamentary Health Committee. PC: WHO Dr Sam...

Solomon Islands and Australia Partnership in Health – Enhancing Health Information Systems across the country

Solomon Islands and Australia Partnership in Health – Enhancing Health Information Systems across the country The Ministry of Health and Medical Services recently received 14 desktop computers from Australia, valued at SBD253,000. The event took...

PLANT HEALTH CLINIC FOR NEW ZEALAND CAMP VEGETABLES AND ROOT CROP FARMERS SET FOR TUESDAY NEXT WEEK

PLANT HEALTH CLINIC FOR NEW ZEALAND CAMP VEGETABLES AND ROOT CROP FARMERS SET FOR TUESDAY NEXT WEEK A Plant Health Clinic PHC session for vegetables, fruit trees and root crop farmers from surrounding communities of the New Zealand camp eastern...

Guide to Optimal Nutrition for Vegans

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Four Steps to Cleaner Water and Better Sanitation in Vanuatu and Beyond

There are many guides, standards and regulations for national water, sanitation and hygiene policies. To see policy impact on the ground and improvements to community water and sanitation, implementation partners need to focus on how they come...

ADB Provides $41 Million to Help Cook Islands, FSM, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu Respond to Disasters

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (28 June 2024) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $41 million in contingent disaster financing to help the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Tuvalu, and Vanuatu respond to...

Vanuatu begins phase two of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change project

Port Vila, Vanuatu – Approaches to planning and decision-making that use Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and resilience-thinking provide a significant opportunity for small island developing states to address climate change threats while working...

Health grateful for the donations of 2 ambulances and 4 dental chairs from Jiangmen Committee Mission team

The Health Minister Dr. Culwick Togamana today (28 October 2023) thanked Jiangmen Committee Mission team for their timely and generous donation of 2 ambulances and 4 dental chairs to the Honiara City Council (HCC). The handover ceremony took place...

PRESS RELEASE – Pacific Heads of Health: Weave the health mat with threads of action.

The 15th Pacific Heads of Health Meeting (PHoH) convenes in Apia, Samoa today, and was officially opened by the Prime Minister of Samoa, Honourable Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa and Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional...

VANUATU SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT VISITS ACTING PM MAELANGA

VANUATU SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT VISITS ACTING PM MAELANGA Speaker of Vanuatu National Parliament Hon. Seoule Simeon being decorated with shell ornament gift during a courtesy visit to Acting Prime Minister Manasseh Maelanga Speaker of the Vanuatu...

Vanuatu, a world leader in the fight against plastic, remains hopeful at the INC2

31 May 2023 Paris France - Global leadership in the battle against single-use plastic was shown by Vanuatu when the Pacific Island nation became the first in the world to ban plastic straws in 2018. Now five years on, Vanuatu has joined the call...

Vanuatu Calls For Ocean And Climate Action On The Global Stage

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA, March 3, 2023 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- His Excellency, Bakoa Kaltongga, Ministerial Special Envoy on Climate Change announced the launch of the Blue Prosperity Vanuatu initiative on a global stage at the Our Ocean Panama...

Devastated by three cyclones in one year, Vanuatu laments impact of triple planetary crisis at plastics treaty talks

16 November 2023, Nairobi Kenya - Vanuatu, the first country in the world to ban plastic straws with the introduction of a single-use plastic regulation, has lent its voice to growing and urgent calls for a global treaty to end the scourge of...

Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, highlights human health risks at INC-3 in Nairobi

14 November 2023, Nairobi Kenya - Samoa, as the Chair of the 39 Small Island Developing States of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), continues to amplify the One Pacific Voice calling for urgent attention and action to end the scourge of...