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 The Public Health Surveillance & Communicable Disease Control (PHS&CDC) Section is part of the Public Health Programme (PHP) within the Social Resources Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. It is based at SPC's Noumea headquarters. The section is also the Focal Point of the Coordinating Body of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN), and therefore our activities are inscribed within the five strategies of this regional framework.
Our first priorities are those of the network: communicable diseases, especially the outbreak-prone ones. At this stage our target diseases include: dengue, measles, rubella, influenza, leptospirosis, typhoid fever, cholera, SARS and HIV/STIs.
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SPC provides water tests to PNG to help fight cholera outbreak |
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 On Friday 08 January 2010, the Port Moresby office of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) provided 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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Inform'ACTION 31 on Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) |
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 The special issue of Inform'ACTION (31) on Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the Pacific Islands is now available online. Contributions include:
- Influenza treatment centres in New Caledonia
- Influenza A (H1N1) surveillance overview,
Palau, May-September 2009
- Influenza H1N1 on Guam
- Tokelau – Influenza A (H1N1): ZERO cases
- Influenza A (H1N1) pdm in French Polynesia
Assessment of epidemiological situation
as at 21 October 2009
- Description of Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak
on the island of Moorea from August to
October 2009
- Report on the measures taken at Nuutania
Penitentiary (Tahiti) during the outbreak
of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009
- Situation report on influenza H1N1 2009
in Samoa - 25 August 2009
- ILI and Pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
surveillance in Solomon Islands
- Deaths from laboratory-confirmed
pandemic influenza H1N1 (2009) in
Pacific Islands countries and territories,
2009
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WHO and SPC donate personal protective equipment and Tamiflu to Fiji Ministry of Health |
 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) are supporting Fiji's response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic, with financial help from Australia and New Zealand.
During the past two weeks, WHO donated 157,000 capsules of Tamiflu to Fiji. Approximately 10,000 additional capsules have also been sent to Fiji by SPC. Pandemic H1N1 influenza is a mild illness in most persons; therefore WHO recommends giving Tamiflu only to patients with risk factors for severe influenza. These supplies provide Fiji with enough antiviral medication to treat approximately 2% of the population.
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WHO/SPC response to influenza A (H1N1) threat in Pacific Islands region |
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 The human influenza A (H1N1) outbreak is evolving rapidly. As of 12 May 2009, 30 countries have officially reported 5251 cases of the infection. Three countries on the rim of the Pacific Islands have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths – New Zealand (7), Australia (1) and Hawaii (6) – increasing the likelihood that the infection could spread to Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs)*.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) are working to support PICTs in responding quickly and efficiently to this public health threat. The priority is to ensure that countries’ surveillance systems are working, as well as their laboratory testing procedures to detect any suspected cases.
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