How can I keep healthy when travelling in Fiji?

Before travelling:

• Register your trip with Smart Traveller 
• Make sure you have enough of your regular prescription medicines;
• Ensure you’re up-to-date with your routine vaccinations 
• Take out travel insurance - to cover you and your family for medical and other costs resulting from unexpected incidents and accidents
• Put together a travel kit with paracetamol and aspirin, diarrhoeal medicine, oral rehydration salts, antiseptic lotion or ointment, adhesive bandages and other wound dressings, insect repellent, sunscreen, latex gloves, thermometer, motion sickness medicine, and water purification tablets
   

During travel:

• The tap water is Fiji is not necessarily safe to drink. Drink bottled or filtered water only and check the plastic seal on bottled water is intact. Avoid adding ice to your drinks, and check that salad and fruit have been washed  with filtered water prior to consumption.
• Use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, human papillomavirus, herpes, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV.
• There is a risk of contracting mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue in Fiji. Dengue is spread through the bite of particular type of infected mosquito, which bites indoors and outdoors during the daytime. In some cases people who get infected do not show any symptoms, but those that do become ill 4–7 days after the bite, and have flu-like symptoms including intermittent high fever, severe headache, muscle, joint and bone pain, and a skin rash with red spots. In some cases, the illness may progress to dengue haemorrhagic fever, a very serious condition that can be fatal.
• There is not yet a vaccine for dengue available to travellers. If you travel to Fiji you should avoid being bitten by mosquitoes by protecting yourself with insect repellent, wearing clothing that covers your arms and legs, and staying in accommodation that has working door and window screens.