After a medical retirement brought his playing days to a halt, Kimami Sitauti found a new purpose in France helping new arrivals navigate life in a country where even ordering a coffee can feel overwhelming without French.

This edition of Pacific Pulse was a repeat of the program broadcast on 15th April 2026

Experts say when someone is visibly unwell, we’re still quick to label them “crazy,” or explain symptoms like hearing voices or paranoia through spirits or possession when these can be signs of conditions like schizophrenia or severe depression that need proper treatment. 

Race, patriarchy, poverty, and the arrival of a period has kept generations of women invisible in Fiji's sports scene. 

Diphtheria is a bacterial disease we thought we'd left behind, but gaps in adult vaccination and overcrowded housing conditions have given it a foothold again.

Sitting across a trafficking route where meth and cocaine is passing through Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Solomon Islands, not all drugs leave. 

On the streets of Suva, people are handing out clean syringes to drug users at night in a bid to prevent the spread of HIV because there's no formal needle exchange program.

Indonesian biofuel projects are tearing through forests in West Papua and pushing people off their customary land

For Tongans in the diaspora, sewing can be the thread between culture, identity and your island home.

One of the world’s oldest staple crops is being reshaped for a hotter, drier future in Papua New Guinea, where scientists are developing climate-resilient taro hybrids designed to withstand drought, heat and rising salinity.

Jalen Manumaleuga thought basketball was the goal, but a scholarship to Jackson State University lead him to study African American history and business which has shaped him beyond the game.