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Urology specialist to conduct free check-ups at Rarotonga Hospital
Cook Island News
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August 27, 2025
TMO is advising interested people to call the Rarotonga Hospital or the Tupapa Community Centre, to arrange an appointment. The Ministry of Health Te Marae Ora (TMO) has announced a health specialist visit for next week, featuring a urologist who...
Mandarin learning a gateway for Pacific islands' youths
China Daily Global
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Contestants take a group photo in the Confucius Classroom at the Emalus campus of the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Aug 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] In the South Pacific island country of Vanuatu, learning Chinese has opened...
FNU’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences – School of Medicine | A history 1886 – 1971
The Fiji Times
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August 22, 2025
Fiji became a British colony in 1874, driven largely by economic struggles. The situation deteriorated in 1875 when Ratu Cakobau and his party returned from Sydney carrying measles. The epidemic devastated the non-immune Fijian population, killing...
A test of unity: Can the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ meeting keep the family together
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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September 11, 2025
Pacific leaders will gather in Honiara for big declarations on security and climate, but regional fragmentation poses a pressing challenge Chinese military activity in the Pacific has reached new levels in the past year. A PLA Navy task group...
UNICEF Report Warns Of Growing Crisis Affecting 10% Of The World’s Children
News18
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September 11, 2025
Last Updated:September 11, 2025, 11:47 IST A major global crisis is affecting 1 in 10 children, warns UNICEF. A common modern habit may be to blame, and the long-term health risks are alarming. One of the key drivers behind this alarming trend is...
Explainer: What is the Pacific Island Forum and why should Māori care?
Te Ao Maori News
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September 11, 2025
This week the 54th meeting is being hosted in the Solomon Islands and in two years’ time, Aotearoa will once again play host for the 56th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ meeting in 2027. With deep cultural and ancestral ties to the Pacific, issues...
UNICEF Reports Worldwide Surge In Overweight And Obesity
Forbes
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While undernutrition remains a significant concern among children under 5 in most low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing among school-aged children and adolescents. A major culprit: widespread...
Adam Pearse: Why New Zealand must learn from the Solomon Islands as Pacific forum host
The New Zealand Herald
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September 11, 2025
Seeing how a warming climate and natural disasters eat away at the land reinforces the need for aid and demands real accountability for emissions-heavy practices. Hearing of thousands of unexploded bombs buried just centimetres under the earth,...
Childhood obesity overtakes underweight in global malnutrition report
Straight Arrow News
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September 10, 2025
A new UNICEF report shows that childhood obesity is now overtaking undernutrition as the leading form of malnutrition worldwide. The agency warns that school-aged children and teens face a higher risk of serious, life-threatening health problems...
Pacific Islands race to contain 'largest dengue fever outbreak in a decade', as disease kills 18 people
Samoa News
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August 14, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dengue fever has struck countries across the Pacific, where health authorities have recorded 23,500 suspected cases and 16,000 laboratory confirmed cases this year. The mosquito-borne illness has killed 18 people,...
In a first, the world has more obese kids than undernourished ones, Unicef warns
Dawn
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September 11, 2025
Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by “unethical” marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time among those aged five to 19, the United...
One in 10 children worldwide obese, says new UN report
Africanews
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September 10, 2025
Obesity surpassed underweight as the more prevalent form of malnutrition this year, affecting 1 in 10 – or 188 million – school-aged children and adolescents, and placing them at risk of life-threatening disease, UNICEF warned in a new report...
More Children Are Obese Than Underweight – Unicef
Zambian Observer
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September 11, 2025
For the first time, there are more children in the world who are obese than underweight, according to a major study by children’s charity Unicef. Around one in 10 of those aged between five and 19 years old – around 188 million children and young...
Obesity surpasses undernourishment among world's young population for the first time; What this means for children
The Times of India
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Imagine a world where being overweight is now more common in kids than being underfed. Seems pretty impossible, right? But that’s today’s reality.For the first time in history, more children and teens around the world are facing obesity than...
Childhood obesity triples, overtakes underweight globally: UNICEF
Sabah
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September 11, 2025
Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF, which blamed increasingly unhealthy food environments worldwide for the shift. The U.N....
Global alarm as more children now obese than underweight
Female First
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September 11, 2025
11 September 2025 For the first time, there are more children in the world who are obese than underweight, according to a new UN report. Global alarm as more children now obese than underweight Unicef warns that ultra-processed junk food is taking...
Obesity surpasses underweight in children for the first time
Observer
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September 11, 2025
Obesity has overtaken underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among children and adolescents, affecting 1 in 10 (188 million) school-aged children worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report. The report, “Feeding Profit: How Food...
UAE Residence Visa
The Times of India
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UAE residents can travel visa-free to 140+ countries in 2025 with a valid residence visa/Representative Image In 2025, UAE residents have wide international mobility, with visa-free or visa-on-arrival entry to more than 140 countries. The...
New Zealand’s greatest conman
The Spinoff
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September 9, 2025
In 1968 a mysterious man arrived in New Zealand and soon after was promising a miracle cancer cure. He charmed patients, health practitioners and journalists alike. And when he was chased out of the country in 1977, he took his ‘treatment’...
Obesity in kids now leads malnutrition globally, UNICEF reports
The Manila Times
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September 10, 2025
UNITED NATIONS, United States — Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by “unethical” marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time among those...