Category: Medicine, Health and Science
ABC’s Nightlife with Suzanne Hill on 28 December 2020 featured a fascinating interview with Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy – Clinical immunologist (pioneer in a field known as mucosal immunology) and author of the forthcoming...
Gender-based violence (GBV) in PNG Participants recently gathered and danced at the National Summit for Ending GBV. According to Human Rights Watch, nearly seven out ten women in Papua New Guinea experience rape or...
PNG blocks Chinese plane after workers were used in vaccine testing Sourced from the Daily Mail Papua New Guinea has turned around a plane full of Chinese workers after it was revealed a...
Papua New Guinea’s COVID-19 cases. Sourced from Loop PNG On Monday evening, the National Pandemic Controller issued the latest data, which brings the total to 111. It was reported that the new case is...
Australia is proudly supporting Dr Patrick Koliwan and David Valentine, founders of health-tech startup Refer Tech that have developed an electronic tuberculosis (TB) patient management system. The prototype is being piloted at the Kaugere...
In May 2018 I was fortunate to go to Townsville to attend a fundraising breakfast for Youth With A Mission (YWAM). While I was pleased to see some faces and places I knew from...
Today mobile phones, email and internet, make it easy to forget that for almost the first 100 years of New Ireland’s development from the earliest colonial days, it was accomplished without any form...
Australia has given Papua New Guinea more than 100,000 records of plant and animal specimens collected since the1950s in what’s been described as a “really rich” source of data. The gift from the Canberra-based...
This is a collection of newspaper clippings concerning the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Papua New Guinea in the period 1962 to 1971. They were collected by the first Director of the PNG...
In 2003 a tiny skeleton was discovered during an archaeological excavation in Liang Bua cave, on the island of Flores in Indonesia by Professor Mike Morwood and Dr Tony Djubiantono and a team of...
I read with interest the article in the last edition of Una Voce, “Kiap Tribute Event”, but of more interest to me was the article taken from the speech Nance Johnston made regarding the...
Dr Peter Booth arrived in Port Moresby in October 1962 to take up the position of the first Director of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. When...
Abstract This review covers published information on psychoactive drugs, particularly cannabis, in Papua New Guinea. Legal drugs are mentioned to place the illegal drugs into a broader public health context. Although a number of...
The arrival of coffee into the Highlands of PNG, where it is by far the major source of cash to a fast-expanding rural population, coincided with the arrival of roads, airstrips, Christian missions and...
Prior to the Europeans coming to New Britain, infanticide was practiced in most of the islands. In 1934, Edna was born at Malalia Methodist Mission station near Cape Hoskins on the north coast of...