16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. Medical Services Pacific partnered with the Nausori Health Centre and Nausori Market and provided a 2-day
What is your understanding of suicide? Not very many people want to talk about the tragedy of suicide—especially when it involves young people. Taking one’s own life is generally considered taboo. The reasons people choose suicide are highly debated and often misunderstood. Unfortunately, its has become too common among the younger generation in Fiji. Suicide is now
While Fiji spent April celebrating Ram Navami, observing Lent and Easter, watching the lunar eclipse, and attending the Coco-cola games, the MSP crew were working like crazy on several high-profile outreach events (in addition to our usual services), much to the delight of close to 900 people who accessed our services this month. AWACEN-ing minds, inspiring
Well, it’s been a busy few months here at Medical Services Pacific, and no doubt you’ve all been wondering what we’ve been up to!
Celebrating 3 years of empowering and supporting Fiji women and youth Since its inception just three years ago, MSP has delivered clinical and information services to over 66,000 women, men and youth through our mobile outreach team and walk-in clinic programs.
Did you know that around 16 million girls under 18 give birth each year worldwide? And there were over 800 teenage pregnancies recorded in Fiji in 2012 – most of these students? MSP supported UN World Population Day 2013, focussed on the issue of adolescent pregnancy this year, with a special free clinic for women
It’s good to see that the rain clouds have passed over at last and the sun is shining again. Here’s an update of what the MSP team have been up to recently.
It’s been a busy month for us at MSP, with our clinical and awareness programs reaching over 644 clients – a third of which were under 24 years old. Below is a snapshot of some of our activities, but first a big thanks to the Corona club for donating children’s books for our reception area
This Workshop is a joint initiative of Medical Services Pacific (MSP) and the Aspire Network to engage youth and stakeholders in collaboration to protect our children and end violence against women & girls in Fiji.
MANY women made use of a free medical health check-up held in Suva yesterday. The Fiji Muslim’s Women’s league in conjunction with the Medical Services Pacific took the initiative to take the cervical cancer screening and health awareness to the community.
