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November 2021 Vol 47 No 11
CONTENTS

12 30 36

5 Editor’s note 20 COVAX- an opportunity lost

6 View from the West 23 COVID-19 lessons for public health messaging
7 We Say 25 PNG’s five-year timeline to vaccinate
8 Briefs 27 NCDs: Rewarding the sick?

10 Whispers 28 NCDs: Malapoa serves up aelan kaikai
12 A Fraying Lifeline: Chronically under- 30 Setbacks at COP26 climate talks
funded and lacking resources, Pacific 35 Our Ocean’s Promise: the Marshall Islands
islands health care faces the crisis of a Fishing story
lifetime 38 France boosts police and military before New

14 COVID-19 challenges in Noumea and Caledonia vote
Papeete 42 Fisheries: Pacific goes head to head at WTO
18 “It looks like malaria, dengue, pneumonia 44 Business: Just Drop It!

and asthma all in one” 48 Movers and Shakers

Cover photo: A nurse prepares an Astrazeneca shot in a Port Vila, Vanuatu vaccination
clinic. Photographer: Dan McGarry

French Polynesia .............. CPF500
Australia ....................... AU$6.00
Solomon Islands ............. SL$30.00
Australia ......................AU$10.00 Hawaii ........................US$10.00 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T10.00
New Zealand .................NZ$10.00
Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
Tonga .............................P10.00
Niue ...........................NZ$10.00
Cook Islands ..................NZ$10.00 Kiribati ........................AU$10.00 New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00 Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
Federated States of Micronesia ......
Palau ..........................US$10.00
FSM ............................US$10.00 Marshall Islands .............US$10.00 Niue ............................ NZ$6.00 Tonga .............................P10.00
Tuvalu .........................AU$10.00
Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
US$6.00
Vanuatu ........................
Papua New Guinea .............K15.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$8.00 Nauru .........................AU$10.00 Palau ........................... US$6.00 Tuvalu .......................... AU$6.00 Vatu500
Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35
Samoa ............................T12.00
French Polynesia .............. CPF500 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Papua New Guinea .............K10.00 Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
4 Islands Business, November 2021