Hundreds of New Zealanders are waiting for the chance to see clearly again, prompting a renewed call for whānau across Aotearoa to have one potentially life-changing conversation — what should happen to their eye tissue after they die? Organ Donation New Zealand Clinical Director Dr Jo Ritchie is encouraging New Zealanders to talk openly about…

The Government is being urged to urgently partner with tāngata whaikaha Māori after the Waitangi Tribunal found significant parts of Aotearoa’s disability system continue to disadvantage Māori and expose whānau to culturally unsafe care. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says the findings in Hauwhaikaha – The Disability System Report amount to a damning assessment of…

New Zealand is being urged to significantly strengthen its response to Fiji’s rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, with public health researchers warning the crisis can no longer be treated as an issue contained within one Pacific nation. Dr Sharon McLennan, a public health researcher at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, says the extraordinary growth…