Nutrition-related Non-communicable Disease in Fiji and the South Pacific Islands

Trachoma Mapping in the Pacific Fiji, Solomon Islands and Kiribati

Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands

This paper analyses the status of food security in selected South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu at the national and household levels during the period 1991-2002. Due to narrow resource base and production conditions, Pacific Islands concentrate on a few primary commodities for production and exports. Dur...

Fish and nutrition in the Pacific Islands.

The introduction of implant dentistry in the South Pacific Islands of Fiji.

Fiji is a Micronesian island group in the South Pacific Ocean, approximately 2000km from Auckland and about one-third of the way from New Zealand to Hawaii. It has a population of 945,000. It is considered by the World Bank to be a developing country. Only limited specific information is available about the quality of dental health care in the South Pacific Islands. Overall, though, there is a ...

Four new species of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) from the South Pacific islands of Fiji

During fieldwork in Fiji, four new species of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) were discovered and are described herein: C. gregoryi M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., C. hispida M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., C. longifructosa M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., and C. waisaliensis M.A.Johnson, sp. nov. The addition of four new species brings the current number of Fijian Cyrtandra to 41 endemic species. Two of the four species are kno...