Mercury and Health: A Minamata disease survivor is urging countries to join the Minamata Convention and curb mercury pollution, after contaminated seafood caused deaths and serious illness in Japan. Niue Health: Officials say the risk to the wider public is low after two HIV cases were confirmed. Both people are receiving care, while counselling, contact assessment, testing and follow-up are underway. Pacific Climate and Health: Professor Sir Collin Tukuitonga says Pacific knowledge and community-led solutions should help shape global responses to climate change and health inequity ahead of COP31 talks in Fiji. Cancer Prevention: A report on H. pylori, a bacterium linked to most stomach cancers worldwide, highlights its higher impact on Māori and Pasifika communities and the lack of a screening programme in New Zealand.