The world has spent more than 40 years learning what works in the AIDS response. For the Pacific, with its long tradition of collective action in tackling shared challenges, those hard-won lessons could help prevent today’s growing HIV epidemics from becoming a much larger crisis. The recent surge of international attention to Fiji’s HIV epidemic has carried uncomfortable echoes of an earlier era of AIDS. A rapid rise in new infections. A...
The Melanesian archipelago has to cope with one of the fastest spreads of the virus in the world following the introduction of methamphetamine, a product as powerful as addictive, often consumed without hygiene precautions.