Fiji now has the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic. A UNAIDS report titled 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the ...

Driven by foreign drug cartels using Fiji as a staging post for operations in New Zealand and Australia, the drug has also spread into local communities. In turn, it has fueled a surge in HIV ...

Fiji's minister of health declared an official HIV outbreak in January, citing 1,093 new cases from January to September 2024—triple the number from the same period in 2023.

Lice Movono: It's a virus many thought was under control, but more than 1,000 HIV cases were detected in Fiji last year. That's three times more than the number in 2023, and a nine-fold increase ...

Fiji health authorities are scrambling to stem an outbreak of HIV, as growing meth use and alarming needle-sharing trends accelerate the spread of the virus. Skip to main content ABC News ...

Like many Pacific states that rely on tourism, Fiji had a hard time during the main pandemic years. ... Meth, HIV And Drug Gangs A Perfect Storm In Fiji ...

Listen to this article In 2024, HIV/AIDS seems to be well and truly back in Fiji. Estimated new infections had been increasing slowly over the past two decades, but rose by 260 per cent from 2010–2022 ...

The spread of HIV is increasing in Fiji, with some experts calling it the 'ticking timebomb' of the Pacific. Fiji has the second fastest growing epidemic in the Asia Pacific behind the Philippines ...

Drug cartels selling drugs in NZ and Australia are using Fiji as a waypoint – where kids as young as nine are being treated for meth addiction, while crime and HIV rates are climbing. What can ...