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Some seek more boxes to check for other Pacific Islanders
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER , Associated Press
July 18, 2021
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1of6In this photo provided by Bryden Kaauwai, Dr. Kapono Chong-Hanssen administers COVID-19 vaccines, Saturday, July 10, 2020, in Kekaha, Hawaii. Chong-Hanssen supports a resolution introduced by a member of the Honolulu City Council urging Hawaii government agencies to go beyond minimum federal standards and get more specific when collecting racial data in one of the most racially diverse state in the nation. Chong-Hanssen said the pandemic underscores the need for data that doesn t lump together Pacific Islanders. (Bryden Kaauwai via AP)Bryden Kaauwai/APShow MoreShow Less
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Vaccination drive at the Suva Civic Centre. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA
The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), announced a $1.5 million partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) this week to support Pacific governments in vaccinating their populations quickly and effectively against COVID-19.
According to a statement from the US Embassy in Suva, the partnership would support efforts in Fiji, Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Nauru, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
It would focus on “readiness, delivery and post-delivery monitoring of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines”.
“USAID assistance will also train partner institutions on the effective management of vaccines and will provide technical assistance to colleagues within partner country ministries of health for effective public messaging around vaccinations,” the US Embassy stated.
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A woman who assisted former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen in operating an international adoption scheme was sentenced to two years in state prison.
Lynwood Jennet, 47, a native of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, had worked for Petersen for six years.
Jennet helped Petersen coordinate adoptions from the Marshall Islands to the United States. Once the women arrived in Arizona, Jennet was their translator, their driver as well as their medical contact, according to court documents. She also lived with them during their pregnancies in a house in Mesa owned by Petersen.
While Petersen charged each adoptive family $35,000 or more, Jennet provided false information to Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state s Medicaid program for low-income residents. to pay for the births with tax dollars, according to court documents.