Little has been published on brucellosis within the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) and the cattle population has been reportedly free of the disease for many years until a re-emergence occurred in 2009. This paper reports on the outbreak of brucellosis in Fiji and its progression between 2009 and 2013 in the context of an overview of brucellosis in the Pacific Island community...

We report 2 clinically characteristic and serologically positive cases of Ross River virus infection in Canadian tourists who visited Fiji in late 2003 and early 2004. This report suggests that Ross River virus is once again circulating in Fiji, where it apparently disappeared after causing an epidemic in 1979 to 1980.

In this paper we review Fiji's social development policies and strategies in the postindependence period, drawing on various development plans. We conclude that Fiji has followed a fairly good set of social development strategies over the last 40 years. Education and health, which were prioritized from the colonial period, have received continued government commitment. The strategies and focuse...

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CONTEXT The World Health Organization's World report on disability calls upon all nations to 'remove the barriers which prevent [people with disabilities] from participating in their communities; getting a quality education, finding decent work, and having their voices heard' (p. 5). People with communication disability (PWCD), as a consequence of their atypical communication, may be more likel...

Chris Roelfsema & Stuart Phinn, Centre for Spatial Environmental Research, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Stacy Jupiter, Wildlife Conservation Society, Suva, Fiji. James Comley, University of South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. Marie Beger, The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, Australia. Eric Peterson, School of Engineering and Science, Vic...

Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich To cite this article: Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich (2016) Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 6:1, 34-5...

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 ...

CONTINUING STUDY of botanical collections made in recent years under the auspices of the Fiji Department of Agriculture has indicated the occurrence of various hitherto undescribed species of flowering plants in Fiji. In this paper seven species are described as new, in the genera Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), Melochia and Sterculia (Sterculiaceae), Astronidium (Melastomataceae), and Calycosia, Mastix...

BACKGROUND Despite the centrality of health personnel to the health of the population, the planning, production and management of human resources for health remains underdeveloped in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In addition to the general shortage of health workers, there are significant inequalities in the distribution of health workers within LMICs. This is especially true f...