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Fiji breaks ground on $10 million rehabilitation centre in Tamavua
Fiji has broken ground on a new National Rehabilitation Centre in Tamavua as the...
Rebekah Rasmussen 21 Apr 2026
Poverty increases likelihood of dementia, warns expert Dr Etuini Ma’u
Tackling poverty is the single most important thing Aoeatroa / New Zealand can d...
Giovanni Torre 15 Apr 2026
Māori-led resources launched to help whānau understand assisted dying
Aotearoa's first dedicated Māori resources on assisted dying have been launched,...
Joseph Guenzler 16 Mar 2026
Pacific-led initiatives aim to eliminate cervical cancer across the Pacific
Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa - Centre for Pacific and Global Health at Waipapa Taumata...
Giovanni Torre 8 Mar 2026
University of Oklahoma’s Native Nations research centre releases key report on cancer care access
The University of Oklahoma's Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research ha...
Giovanni Torre 6 Mar 2026
Seeing the child, not the diagnosis: Te Whare Kaiao – a new way to support families in Aotearoa

A new Indigenous framework co-designed by University of Auckland researchers aims to reshape how children's palliative care is delivered in Aotearoa.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 25, 2026
Community visits in Aotearoa raise awareness of mate wareware - 'the illness of forgetting'

Around 90 people gathered at Te Papaiouru (Ōhinemutu) marae (communal meeting places) in Rotorua on 20 February for a powerful hui (gathering) with Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland's C...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 24, 2026
Federal funding cuts force Canada's Métis Nation–Saskatchewan to end mental health program

Federal funding cuts have forced Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S), to end its mental health counselling program, prompting concern from First Nations Canadians who rely on the service.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Feb 24, 2026
Plan submitted to reform Canadian First Nations child and family services

Canada's Government is set to submit a plan to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to reform the First Nations Child and Family Services program, with the Government saying it will support First Nation...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Dec 30, 2025
Navajo-led study finds COVID-19 cut access to hospital care, traditional healing

A Navajo-led study has found the COVID-19 pandemic cut people off from both hospital care and traditional healing across the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation — the largest Indigenous nation in t...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Dec 29, 2025
Four years on from Canadian Indigenous woman's death in waiting room, family still waits for inquest

This article contains the names of Indigenous people who have died. Four years after a 24-year-old Canadian First Nations woman died in a hospital waiting room in Ontario, her family is waiting for a...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 23, 2025
Vanuatu's most remote province receives first ever x-ray service

Torba Province's first x-ray service is now operational at Quatvaes Hospital, supported by a new solar energy system delivered through Australia's REnew Pacific Respond Global HELPR-1 project.

Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls forcibly given contraception

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 and younger, say they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date to the 1960s.

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