Australia supports Fiji’s HIV and drug fight

Fiji urged to back community-led HIV and drug response

FAITH and community leaders meeting Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Penny Wong, in Suva, pressed for community-led action as Fiji confronts a deepening drug crisis and a growing HIV outbreak. The post Fiji urged to back community-led HIV and drug response appeared first on Islands Business.

Australia supports Fiji’s HIV and drug fight

As Fiji wrestles with a rising HIV outbreak alongside an escalating drug crisis, leaders are increasingly turning to one key message: real solutions must come from the community, not just the policy table. This was the central theme at a high-level roundtable held at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat during the visit of Australia’s Foreign […]

‘Spreading like wildfire’: Fiji grapples with soaring HIV cases

(AFP via Yahoo!) – As evening falls in Fiji’s capital, a steady stream of people approaches a makeshift clinic that is a first line of defence against one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics. In the South Pacific nation — a popular tourist destination of just under a million people — there were over 2,000 new HIV cases recorded last year, a 26 percent increase from 2024. The government has declared an HIV outbreak and described it as a …