Against the odds, Nevio Sarmento and his team of medical professionals raced to set-up Timor Leste's first COVID-19 testing facility with the help of Australia's Menzies School of Health Research.

With the world's eyes on COVID, the Sea Women of Melanesia, an all women dive team have been working to protect one of the world most important coral ecosystems with support from the Australia-based Coral Sea Foundation.

As COVID shuts schools in Indonesia, an innovative volunteer programme gets student teachers supporting rural kids to learn at home, sparking a long-term change to the university curriculum for primary school teachers.

In Vanuatu, one way to help revitalize a COVID decimated tourism industry is through local food. Votausi Reur-Mckenzie, the 'Queen of Ni-Van cuisine' and National Agritourism Coordinator, is showing how it's done.

With COVID threatening global supply chains, we follow the determined Kaleko SteiFree team, lead by Mary Ramosaea, as they continue to produce and distribute the Solomon Islands' only reusable sanitary product.

Contracting tuberculosis has helped Dr Thu Anh Nguyen better understand her own work, leading TB research in Vietnam. Now she is advocating to end the disease with the same proactive response taken for COVID-19.