AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 minutes agoHIV response boost: Australia and the Ministry of Health and Medical Services expanded HIV prevention, testing and treatment support across all 10 provinces with over SBD$5 million for community awareness, workforce capability and stronger surveillance. Public health system plans: The Governor-General’s Speech set out steps to improve medicine supply, reopen closed clinics, upgrade Area Health Centres, strengthen provincial hospitals, and tackle mental health and malaria elimination by 2038. Specialist care in Malaita: Japan’s China Medical Team delivered free specialist outreach at Kilu’ufi Hospital, including consultations, treatment, and donated oxygen concentrators and medicines. Attendance and service delivery: The Auditor General urged urgent enforcement of the Attendance Management Policy after findings linked ineffective rollout to nearly $1 billion wasted in 2023–2025, including missing monitoring systems and weak enforcement. Honiara sanitation and safety: Home Affairs Minister Maelanga called for urgent action on poor sanitation, waste, drainage, infrastructure, traffic and public order issues, warning they directly affect public health. AMR action: Solomon Islands reaffirmed its antimicrobial resistance commitment after submitting its latest TrACSS self-assessment to WHO. Scabies progress: Nationwide ivermectin campaigns in Solomon Islands cut scabies rates from 23.2% to 3.9% after two rounds. Agriculture for health and nutrition: Government plans 10,000 hectares of new cocoa and coconut plantations and deployed agricultural officers to all 50 constituencies to strengthen rural livelihoods.
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