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Report: Submissions re Draft Legislation To Protect The Rights Of Intersex People In Medical Settings

By J Pope
In Crime and law, Gender & Sex, LGBTIQ+ issues
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Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate  (ACT), August 2022 Consultation on the draft Variations in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill 2022 closed on Friday 8 July. A Listening Report has been prepared summarising the input provided by stakeholders during the consultation. This report is intended to provide transparency regarding the range of views and...

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Psychological Therapies Targeting Priority Populations Service Model (LGBTIQA+)

By J Pope
In LGBTIQ+ issues, Mental health & sexual health
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Meridian (ACT), released July 2021 Meridian was invited by the Capital Health Network (CHN) to co-design a service model for delivering mental health services to LGBTIQA+ communities in the ACT under the Psychological Therapies Targeting Priority Populations contract. Meridian facilitated a co-design process with LGBTIQA+ people to design a service model that would respond to their mental health...

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Australasian HIV&AIDS + Sexual Health Conferences – registrations closing soon

By J Pope
In Aboriginal Health, Contraception, Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, Gynaecology & andrology, Hepatitis, HIV, LGBTIQ+ issues, Mental health & sexual health, Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health, Safer sex, Sexual Activity, Sexual dysfunction, Sexual, gendered & partner violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Young people
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Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine, October 2017 Registrations for these conferences are closing soon: The Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference The Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference is the premier HIV Conference in Australia and the Asia and Pacific region. The annual conference is run by ASHM as a platform for the dissemination and presentation of new and...

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Union resistance could stymie prison needle exchange program: researcher

By J Pope
In Hepatitis, HIV, People Who Inject Drugs / AOD
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Guardian, Monday 19 October 2015 16.07 AEDT A senior blood-borne diseases researcher, Associate Professor Mark Stoové, says Australia’s first prison needle and syringe program flagged for trial in an ACT jail is most likely doomed because of the influence of a union and its members. Stoové criticised the Community and Public Sector Union’s resistance to a proposal by the ACT government to trial a...

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