Pasifika Health

It’s been a long week with a long weekend to follow for the Pacific providers dividing themselves between two vaccine rollouts and the Tongan relief effort

This month Pharmac – Te Pataka Whaioranga will launch a pioneering campaign, ‘You Are a Priority’, to raise awareness about the new funding criteria which enables Māori and Pacific people to get diabetes medicines more easily

Aotearoa’s surging rates of dementia can be limited by targeting 12 potentially modifiable risk factors that vary across ethnic groups, a University of Auckland study suggests

This week the Southern district COVID-19 vaccine team is launching its programme to vaccinate the over 32,000 strong Māori and Pasifika community across Southland and Otago

Canterbury’s atrocious weather didn’t dampen Saturday’s celebratory opening of Etu Pasifika’s new premises in Christchurch

When the team at Etu Pasifika move to their new purpose-built premises on Tuam Street this Saturday, it will be the realisation of a dream for both staff and the community

GP Lance O’Sullivan is staying tight-lipped on where in south Auckland his mobile “MAiPOD” clinic could set up 

Whānau are withdrawing from the Mana Kidz school-based programme and a principal has asked nurses to stop swabbing for strep throat following wild and false claims made on social media last week 

Fear-mongering on social media is at risk of seriously undermining “fantastic” rheumatic-fever prevention work, south Auckland health providers say

Pharmacist Joanna Hikaka says the study she led is a starting point for addressing inequities in prescribing, especially for Māori