Enhancing Healthcare Response to Violence Against Women, Girls, and Children
DOCTORS, clinical nurses, and midwives from the National Referral Hospital (NRH), Honiara City Council (HCC), and Guadalcanal Province (GP) participated in a three-day’ workshop on Strengthening the Health Care Response to Violence Against Women,...
Youths Train on Sexual Health Rights
YOUTHS from Mbokonavera 4 community have been engaged in the second series of training workshop held at their Community.The workshop was organised by the Young Women Christian Centre (YWCA) under the Rise Up’ program...
Zoleveke: A Scientist Motivated by Personal Experience
BY JOY OFASIA
BORN and raised in Malaita province, Hilda Zoleveke left her home village to pursue education and a medical career as a medical laboratory scientist at the Pathology Division of the National Referral...
Report on Women’s Health Study in Solomon Islands Launched
BY ALEX DADAMU
A report on a study by the Solomon Islands Planned Parenthood Association (SIPPA), Addressing Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: the Determinants and Consequences of unsafe Abortion in the Solomon Islands was launched...
HCC Conducts Food Safety And Hygiene Training For Tanuli Ridge Women
More than thirty women of Tanuli Ridge in East Honiara, have concluded a two-day workshop on Food Safety and Hygiene with the Honiara City Council Health Promotion Department on Wednesday last week.
Organized by Acting...
Solomon Islands’ First Oral Surgeon
BY JOY OFASIA
For the first time, the Solomon Islands has recorded its first Oral Surgeon, 36-year-old Dr. Grace Mali Mamupio, who hails from Dunde Village, Munda, and New Jella in the North New Georgia...
Workshop Deepens Understanding to Help Victims of Violence
BY JEFFREY TAFOLEHE
INCREASING domestic violence in Solomon Islands is being blamed for the rise in the number of women and children seeking shelter in a care-centre in Honiara.
Known to be the only centre or...
Maternity Uniform for Pregnant RSIPF Officers
THE Australian Federal Police (AFP), through its partnership program with the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), has supported the introduction of a maternity uniform for RSIPF female officers.
Funding support from the RSIPF-AFP Policing...
Fighting for the Survivors of Domestic Violence
BY MIKE TUA
FAMILY Support Centre is a locally-based organization helping victims of domestic violence in the country.
Solomon Women’s Newspaper Mike Tua interviews the Manager of the Centre, Lynffer Wini Maltungtung on her continuing leading...
Changing the Face of HIV in the Solomon Islands
BY MIKE TUA
ALICE Bouka is pleased to be an HIV Community Advocator of the Ministry of Health Medical Services, HIV Prevention Unit.
She is a former untrained primary school teacher, who has over the years...
