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October 28, 2025
By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned Aotearoa New Zealand to urgently close the “alarming” gaps in measles immunisation, particularly among Māori and Pacific communities. A WHO review last year found measles vaccination rates were at their lowest since 2012, and said the country was at risk of ... <a title="‘Alarming gaps’ – WHO warns NZ to urgently close measles vaccination gap among Māori and Pacific communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/alarming-gaps-who-warns-nz-to-urgently-close-measles-vaccination-gap-among-maori-and-pacific-communities/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Alarming gaps’ – WHO warns NZ to urgently close measles vaccination gap among Māori and Pacific communities">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2025
RNZ News It is being billed as quite possibly New Zealand’s biggest labour action in more than 40 years. It is the latest in a growing series of strikes and walkoffs this year, but the sheer size of it today means much of New Zealand will come to a halt. Several public sector unions say ... <a title="Thousands of nurses, teachers and doctors take part in NZ’s ‘mega strike’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/23/thousands-of-nurses-teachers-and-doctors-take-part-in-nzs-mega-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands of nurses, teachers and doctors take part in NZ’s ‘mega strike’">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract negotiations and thousands of other health workers protested across Aotearoa New Zealand against the coalition government’s cutbacks to the public health service Te Whatu Ora. In spite of the disruptive ... <a title="Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/gallery-doctors-health-workers-challenge-nz-government-over-national-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2024
A Pasifika health leader says high obesity rates in the Pacific are not new, but an increase in childhood obesity is concerning. A study on worldwide trends in underweight and obesity, just published in The Lancet medical journal showed that the highest rates of obesity for women were in Tonga and American Samoa, and Nauru ... <a title="Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/04/food-industry-lack-of-exercise-key-to-childhood-obesity-says-sir-collin/" aria-label="Read more about Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby Sixty four compartments of Papua New Guinea’s main mortuary have been out of service since the festive season while a new refrigerated container has also broken down, leaving the hospital looking for room while another 257 dead bodies lie unclaimed. Port Moresby General Hospital Chief Executive Officer Dr Paki ... <a title="Port Moresby hospital morgue full – 257 bodies lie unclaimed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/port-moresby-hospital-morgue-full-257-bodies-lie-unclaimed/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby hospital morgue full – 257 bodies lie unclaimed">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media statement said that decision followed Stuff’s increasing concerns about the volume of mis- and disinformation being shared, and the “damaging behaviour being exhibited on and enabled by the platform”. ... <a title="NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/nzs-stuff-media-group-quits-x-twitter-over-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2023
By Pauliasi Mateboto in Suva One in 50 Fijian children could have rheumatic heart disease and children between the ages of five to 15 years are the most at risk of rheumatic fever. While revealing these alarming statistics, Health Secretary Dr James Fong revealed the high figures indicated the high screening conducted by the ministry, ... <a title="1 in 50 Fijian children may have rheumatic heart disease, says health chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/30/1-in-50-fijian-children-may-have-rheumatic-heart-disease-says-health-chief/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 50 Fijian children may have rheumatic heart disease, says health chief">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2023
By Dianne Wilson in Rabaul, PNG As the Papua New Guinea government continues its globe trotting, the Nonga Base hospital in Rabaul, East New Britain province, is facing a crisis with no morgue cooling chamber for the last five years. The dead are piled on top of each other and are put into chest freezers ... <a title="Rabaul hospital’s morgue out of service for five years – funding needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/07/rabaul-hospitals-morgue-out-of-service-for-five-years-funding-needed/" aria-label="Read more about Rabaul hospital’s morgue out of service for five years – funding needed">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2023
A GPs advocacy group says that practices learned from the covid-19 pandemic, like staying home when sick or wearing masks in health facilities, should remain in place to halt the spread of infectious diseases. As of August 15, the mandates ended for the seven-day isolation period and masks in health settings, with the Health Minister ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still important" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/16/nzs-covid-19-mandates-end-gp-group-says-some-mask-wearing-self-isolation-still-important/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still important">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2023
By Singgih Wiryono in Jakarta Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) chair Muhammad Isnur has condemned the drafting of the Healthcare Bill (RUU Kesehatan) as “fake”, saying that the draft is almost the same as the Omnibus Law on Job Creation (Cipta Kerja). According to Isnur, the similarity can be seen from a test of the ... <a title="Indonesian critic condemns draft health law as based on ‘fake paper’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/18/indonesian-critic-condemns-draft-health-law-as-based-on-fake-paper/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian critic condemns draft health law as based on ‘fake paper’">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
RNZ Pacific Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following recent flooding. Rio Tinto was the owner/operator of the mine which has laid derelict for more than 30 years. Fears of the threat from flooding in the river system near ... <a title="Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/bougainville-leaders-call-on-mining-giant-rio-tinto-to-assist-communities/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Tokelau’s largest atoll, Nukunonu, is now out of lockdown after experiencing its first community cases of covid-19. In a statement, the government said Fakaofo Atoll has had two cases at the border and Nukunonu now has six positive community cases — all within the same household. This includes the ... <a title="Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/tokelau-covid-two-new-cases-announced-as-lockdown-ends/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends">Read more</a>
