SHINE SA, March 2017 Learn skills and gain confidence to assist young people experiencing mental health problems or crises. If you have frequent contact with young people at work, or you are the parent of a young person, this course will help you: identify the signs of mental health problems know how and where to get help understand what sort of help has been shown to be effective Course Outline...
February 2017 This free, public lecture, given by Associate Professor Martin Holt of the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health, considers the radical shifts in HIV prevention associated with the use of HIV treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). These prevention strategies provide new ways to safely avoid HIV, but also pose challenges to the ways communities understand, and potentially...
The Guardian, Thursday 16 March 2017 06.21 AEDT Good health isn’t simply determined by provision of or access to medical and allied health services. It is influenced by a range of factors impacting on human lives on a day-to-day basis including income, education, conditions of employment, power and social support – the social determinants of health. While the social determinants of health take on...
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, 2017 In 2015, there were just under 3,000 women living with (diagnosed) HIV in Australia, representing around 10% of the overall number of Australians currently living with HIV. The experience of living with HIV can be very different for women than it is for men. HIV Futures 8 is a survey about the health and wellbeing of people living with...
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, February 2017 – Volume 30 – Issue 1 – p 77–86 This review provides an update on the need, development status, and important next steps for advancing development of vaccines against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including herpes simplex virus (HSV), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea), Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia), and...
Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL), January 2017
This booklet aims to increase knowledge and awareness of hepatitis C, allowing drug users to make informed decisions regarding their health. Produced by drug users for drug users, as part of a harm reduction, peer-based approach to health.
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