Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) face significant healthcare challenges due to a high burden of noncommunicable and communicable diseases (NCDs and CDs), limited rural healthcare access, and chronic shortages of medical personnel and resources.

Plastic and waste pollution is a global problem, but it affects ocean communities in the Asia Pacific Region (APR) the most due to their lack of resources to process the pollution.

Non-communicable diseases, or NCDs, are a primary health issue among people in the South Pacific country of Tonga. This issue is driven by various factors

Sixty-two percent of the Pacific Islands Region is rural, and those populations lack resources and funding for WASH infrastructure.