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Culturally specific COVID-19 campaigns do not simply provide information, says Counties Manukau chief executive Margie Apa, they are calls to action 

Apisalome Talemaitoga knew he had been set up. But you can’t say no to a bride, not on her wedding day

South Auckland GPs Rawiri McKree Jansen and Apisalome Talemaitoga have been appointed to the Roche-Simpson border response group, along with director of the Centre for International Health at the University of Otago Philip Hill 

The National Hauora Coalition’s Best Start pregnancy assessment tools are a “rocket fuelled” shift in the provision of care to hāpu māmā, Whanganui GP John McMenamin says

Pacific health providers and support groups across Auckland are playing a leading role in the ongoing COVID-19 response

A man had a facial lesion partly excised by his GP with no follow-up treatment and eventually had to undergo six weeks of radiotherapy 

Māori and Pacific health leaders have no faith in a border process review run by government appointee Heather Simpson 

Four kaupapa Māori providers have combined as the whānau pai collaborative to offer the Mahi a Atua therapeutic approach to mental wellbeing and addiction

A lack of awareness around NHI numbers is causing long delays at COVID-19 testing stations, says ProCare medical director Allan Moffitt 

The lessons learned from New Zealand’s first lockdown will be of great help a second time around, primary care leaders say