Dateline Pacific for 6 August 2019

New Zealand medical researchers say thousands of Pacific people are dying from a lack of cancer treatment; Samoa's nurses association says the country's health system has better monitoring systems in place after the deaths of two vaccinated infants; civil society groups are meeting in Solomon Islands this week to strengthen their ability to sustain peace; Overcrowding on Tuvalu's main atoll of Funafuti is suspected to be behind high rates of rheumatic heart disease among children living there; the Samoa Conservation Society is a small NGO which is driving a carbon off set project jointly with the government.