Since 2006, the Leprosy Mission New Zealand has been supporting the development of a successful community health programme in Bougainville.  The Leprosy Mission New Zealand works alongside the Ministry of Health and other rehabilitation agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Bougainville Healthy Communities Programme (BHCP) - the BHCP is designed to encourage a community-based and owned primary health system. The programme has been established in five of the thirteen districts in Bougainville. The results to date have impressed the autonomous Bougainville government which has agreed to integrate the programme into the Bougainville health system and expand it to cover the other districts.

Earlier this year, Leprosy Mission New Zealand Programme Manager Matt Halsey visited our project in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, to make a very special delivery.  Click here for the full story.