Our partnership with Australian Red Cross (ARC) is strengthening community capacity to prepare for and respond to epidemic disease threats in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. ARC and its partners, Fiji Red Cross, Solomon Islands Red Cross and Vanuatu Red Cross, will work with communities to increase knowledge and skills on epidemic disease awareness-raising, prevention and control, thereby improving disease surveillance and enhancing and extending national surveillance systems.
ARC will also support partners to strengthen engagement with relevant government ministries to better assist national government public health responses to disease outbreaks and assist One Health workers in utilising surveillance and risk mapping to inform decision making. This initiative is enhancing the resilience of health systems, leading to more effective and coordinated responses to public health threats in the Pacific.
