10 novembre 2023

Communication experts from American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu come together for the Pacific Risk Communication Workshop, held in Nadi, Fiji from 7-10 November 2023. The workshop was jointly organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pacific Community (SPC).
Photo: WHO/Faizza Tanggol

 

27 février 2023

Disease surveillance by the WHO shows mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever are rising sharply.

 

Climate change forecasters have warned for years that the warmer and wetter world created by the climate crisis will drive a surge in mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever.

Experts say that in the Pacific Islands, such predictions are now becoming a reality.