How to keep healthy when travelling in New Caledonia

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, or COVID-19
• Put together a travel kit with medication for pain, diarrhoeal medicine, oral rehydration salts, antiseptic lotion or ointment, adhesive bandages and other wound dressings, insect repellent, sunscreen, latex gloves, thermometer, motion sickness medicine, water purification tablets and compression stockings

During travel:                               

• The tap water is generally safe to drink in the towns of New Caledonia, however, if you are visiting rural or remote areas it is advised to drink bottled water only and avoid raw food
• Avoid mosquito bites as dengue fever is a  risk in New Caledonia.
  Protect yourself with insect repellent, wearing clothing that covers your arms and legs, and staying in accommodation that has working door and window screens.
• There is a risk of leptospirosis, a bacterial infection in New Caledonia.  It is spread from animals to humans.  To protect yourself, wear closed shoes, avoid swimming in rivers or muddy water and use a straw when drinking from cans
• Use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, human papillomavirus, herpes, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV.