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51st PIHOA Meeting, Honolulu, HI November 14-18, 2011

The Pacific Island Health Officers Association is convening its 51st meeting in Honolulu on November 14-18, 2011 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort. To register and learn more information about the meeting please go the registration website: www.regonline.com/pihoa51

Education and health leaders and development partners gather in Palau to address regional disease crisis in the US-Affiliated Pacific. April 12, 2011.

The U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands are in a regional state of emergency due to the onslaught of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease, according to participants in the 50th Meeting of the Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA). More than ninety representatives from the health, education and other sectors gathered in the Republic of Palau on April 4th through 8th to address the disease crisis.

Pacific Islands Declare Health Emergency due to Non-Communicable Diseases May 25, 2010

The Pacific Island Health Officers Association declared a Regional State of Health Emergency due to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the United States Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI), which include American Samoa, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services) April 21, 2010

The theme for the 48th PIHOA conference that took place in American Samoa was "The Health Impact of Climate Change" (see PIHOA Climate Change Resolution). More than 80 participants from across the Pacific attended the conference. Hon. Vita A. Skilling, FSM Secretary of Health and Social Affairs and the Directors of Health for the 4 FSM states participated in the meeting. Since this meeting took place only a few months after the earthquake and tsunami had hit American Samoa, another working issues was "emergency preparedness and response: preparing for the next disaster". According to Secretary Skilling, based on the jusrisdictions and experts' presentations it was evident that the island nations in this region are living the effects of climate change such as frequent storms, floods, landslides, droughts, tidal surges, rising sea levels, increasing heat and less cooling breezes. These events have occurred in the FSM in the last 10-15 years."

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