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Programmes and special initiatives 

Combating communicable diseases

  • Communicable disease surveillance and response
  • Expanded programme on immunization
  • Malaria, dengue fever, and filariasis
  • Sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS
  • Soil-transmitted helminths
  • Tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy

Building healthy communities and populations

  • Environmental health
  • Health promotion
  • Healthy setting and environment
  • Mental health and suicide prevention
  • Mother/Child and adolescent health and development
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Tobacco control
  • Injury and violence prevention and control
  • Nutrition and physical activity

Health sector development

  • Emergency and humanitarian action
  • Health systems development and financing in the Pacific
  • Health technology and laboratories
  • Human resources for health
  • Pharmaceuticals

Pacific Initiatives

  • Healthy Islands
  • Meeting of Ministers of Health of the Pacific Island Countries
  • Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN)
  • Pacific Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (PacELF)
  • The Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN)

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