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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
 SPC has published a new version of PIN magazine highlighting
how Pacific Islands countries and territories, regional organisations,
specialists and development assistance partners are working together to
combat non-communicable diseases in the region. Printed copies will be
mailed to remote countries with limited access to the Internet. Copies
can also be downloaded here:
PIN Pacific Islands NCDs 2.22 Mb
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 January 2010 )
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 |
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Solomon Islands and Vanuatu residents will soon notice new bed nets being distributed throughout their communities.
The long-lasting bed nets are impregnated with insecticide which will help in the control of mosquitoes that act as vectors for the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
 Over 250,000 nets have already arrived and another 200,000 are on the way to Port Vila and Honiara, from where they will be distributed to provincial centres by the national malaria and vector borne disease control programs. The aim is for everyone at risk to sleep under an insecticidal bed net every night.
They are especially important for children and pregnant women.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 January 2010 )
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
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 On Friday 08 January 2010, the Port Moresby office of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) will provide 2220 water quality testing tablets and related supplies to Mr Enoch Posanai, Executive Manager of Public Health at the Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Department of Health, to help
fight the cholera outbreak.
These supplies will enable the National Department of Health to carry out more than 1700 water chlorination level tests and 500 water pH tests.
Contaminated water and food are the main routes of transmission of cholera, which continues to spread in PNG. National response teams have been doing water quality testing in the outbreak zones of the affected provinces since the outbreak started last year. These tests have assisted with the overall control efforts so far.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 January 2010 )
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
 Bella Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark: 15 December, 2009 - The German Government will commit another 10 million euros to climate change programmes in Pacific countries, it was announced in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This is in addition to the current 4.2 million euro programme being implemented under the SPC/GTZ Pacific-German Regional Programme on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region. The project is currently operating in three countries – Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu.
While the finer details are still being worked out, the commitment is to intensify existing efforts and enable the implementation of national policy programmes through such mechanisms as forestry inventories, consultation and capacity building programmes.
The announcement was made at a meeting between officials from the Governments of Fiji and Vanuatu and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) together with officials from the German Technical Cooperation agency (GTZ). It was initially conveyed by the German Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development to Pacific leaders in Berlin a few days ago. Present at the Berlin meeting were the Presidents of Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands, the Prime Ministers of Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Tonga. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 December 2009 )
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
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 The European Union (EU) has signed an agreement granting FJD $ 2 Million to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) for a project to strengthen the cultural sector in six Pacific Island countries. This SPC project is called "Structuring the Cultural Sector in the Pacific for Improved Human Development" and resulted from a call for proposals for projects under the theme "Investing in People" Thematic Programme.
Countries to benefit from the project include the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The project, spanning 30 months from when the agreement is signed, is divided into four components which include: 1) The development of cultural policy in six countries; 2) The promotion of cultural industries to the European Union and intra-ACP through the development of a marketing strategy bringing public, private sector and civil society organisations together; 3) The mapping of threatened cultural heritage sites and 4) Exchanges between Pacific and Caribbean museums. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 February 2010 )
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