Parliament of Australia, RESEARCH PAPER SERIES, 2014–15 Contents include: Defining violence against women Prevalence Risk factors Alcohol and drug use Child abuse Pregnancy and separation Younger women Indigenous women Women living in rural and remote areas Women with disabilities Women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Financial stress Reporting Attitudes to domestic, family...
Star Observer, March 30, 2015
LIVING Positive Victoria has released a new fact-sheet on pre-exposure prophalyxis, commonly known as PrEP, which highlights its development in in Australia and aims to raise awareness of it a HIV prevention method.
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Downland factsheet (PDF) here
Accurate, balanced sex education – including information about contraception and condoms – is a basic human right of youth. Such education helps young people to reduce their risk of potentially negative outcomes, such as unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Such education can also help youth to enhance the quality of their relationships and to develop decision-making...
Rural and Remote Health, Published: 30 March 2015 Introduction: There is an unacceptable gap in health status between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia. Linked to social inequalities in health and political and historical marginalisation, this health gap must be urgently addressed. It is important that health professionals, the majority of whom in Australia are non-Aboriginal, are...
Reuters | Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:33pm EDT
Finding doctors at U.S. teaching hospitals who consider themselves competent to care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients may be difficult, suggests a new study.
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Dr Magdalena Harris, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; for The London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C (LJWG), Gilead Sciences Ltd, Addaction and Imperial College NHS Foundation Trust This booklet is about hepatitis C (hep C). It contains information about living with hep C, managing common hep C symptoms, your rights to treatment and treatment choices...