LGBTQ+ communities in the Pacific Islands rely on US funding to decriminalise same-sex relations, collate data and fight HIV.

The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from ...

Samoa declared an outbreak of the disease on 28 November, 2024, after the 'earliest onset of cough' was reported on 16 ...

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs ...

The Talanoa brought together senior officials from customs, tax administrations, and finance ministries across the Pacific to address the challenges and opportunities of revenue mobilisation in the ...

Pacific Islanders living in the US fear sudden removal from loved ones, jobs and their adopted home, as Donald Trump pursues a crackdown on undocumented migrants.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement data showed Fiji had the highest number of Pacific people marked for deportation with 353, followed by Tonga (151), Samoa (57) and the Marshall Islands (39).

In one notable incident, he and other activists were involved with the local anti-vaccination movement in Samoa in 2019 ... whether AIDS was caused by HIV (it is), and has previously suggested ...

Vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the new US health secretary on3, 2025. His nomination in mid-November led to a resurgence of claims that question the efficacy of vaccines. Posts ...

The group also came under fire for boosting anti-vaccine narratives in American Samoa months before a measles ... for example questioning whether HIV causes AIDS and suggesting that ...

Hegseth also said Wednesday that Ukraine returning to its prewar borders—before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014—would be “unrealistic,” effectively forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia in another ...

However, he lied about past statements, including suggesting that pesticides cause children to become transgender, and insisted he played no role in a deadly outbreak of measles in Samoa in 2019 after ...