Healthy Tips: Send your children back to school with healthy lunches
Send your children back to school with healthy lunches. Be sure to make use of locally available produce. Don't forget to remind them to keep practising proper handwashing.
Find out more about nutrition on the Public Health Division's website.
Animated video takes home top TikTok Challenge prize
By: IOM/Olivia Blinn
When Destiny Etse first heard that she had won the FSM COVID-19 TikTok Challenge for her animated video, she did not believe that it was true. Posts on social media and an FSM-wide SMS blast confirmed it — Destiny had won the Gold…
Healthy Tips: Pack light to avoid straining child's muscles
Did you know that a child's backpack should never weigh more than 10%-20% of their body weight? Pack light to avoid straining their muscles and encourage them to use both shoulder straps.
Stat of the week: Total cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the Pacific in 2020
25 260: Total cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the Pacific in 2020 (11 countries recorded no cases of COVID-19).
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Signature of a partnership agreement between France and the Pacific Community
Photo: Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Stuart Minchin, Director General of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Healthy Tips: Live Healthy, Stay Healthy
Small, everyday changes in how we eat and move, can lead to lifelong benefits to our health. Get the “Live Healthy, Stay Healthy” Booklet and take the wellness challenge!
Visit this link to get your copy.
Pacific guidelines for healthy living
Strengthening vital partnerships in the Pacific to support health sector responses to COVID-19
The European Union (EU), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Pacific Community (SPC) today signed an agreement that will strengthen their existing partnership to support health sector responses to…
Healthy Tips: Plan your self-care time to start 2021 smoothly
What is SPC? - Presentation of the SPC's Public Health Division
Do you know that SPC works extensively in the region to improve the #health and wellbeing of the Pacific Islanders? The SPC’s Public Health Division advocates a holistic approach to health, supports sustainable capacity development and facilitates and…