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Addressing Pacific NCD crisis will advance other development priorities

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga—A whole-of-government and whole-of-society response is needed to address the non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis in the Pacific, the King of Tonga, His Majesty King Tupou VI, has told several hundred guests today at the opening ceremony of the inaugural...
Posted On Jun 21 2016 06:06
, By Press Release

Pacific summit to strengthen response to NCDs crisis

NUKU’ALOFA, TONGA/NOUMEA, New Caledonia—Pacific Islands’ leaders and ministers, and officials from regional and global development agencies, will gather in the Kingdom of Tonga from June 20 to 22, 2016 to deliberate on better ways to tackle the region’s non-communicable diseases...
Posted On May 20 2016 06:00
, By Press Release

NCD survey to be partnered with CNMI Behavioral Health Survey

A surveillance survey seeking to measure the prevalence of non-communicable diseases in the Commonwealth will be included in the CNMI Behavioral Health Survey, according to Becky Robles, administrator of the Division of Public Health-NCD Bureau. Robles said the survey is...
Posted On Jun 11 2015 06:06
, By Jayson Camacho

‘Diabetes by far No. 1 cause of blindness in CNMI’

According to Dr. Don Hardt of Hardt Eye Clinic, diabetes is by far the No. 1 cause of blindness in the CNMI. “Many others do not go blind but suffer from severe vision loss that cannot be corrected with glasses. Diabetes can damage virtually every structure in the eye,” Hardt...
Posted On Dec 30 2014 04:00
, By Jayson Camacho
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