Women and Newborn Health Service, North Metropolitan Area Health Service, WA Health Dept, revised 2013 This e-learning package was developed to assist health professionals to update their knowledge of female genital mutilation. It is recommended that all health professionals working with families and babies complete this package. Reading of all included links and activities, the package will take...
August 2015 No FGM Australia is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to protect Australian girls from female genital mutilation, and to support and empower survivors of FGM. They have recently launched their new website, which contains information resources, and a reporting mechanism for suspected FGM on Australian girls. Their resources are tailored to specific professions: social workers...
Reuters, Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:09pm EDT
College women who choose an intrauterine device (IUD) for long-term contraception say it hurts to have the device inserted at first, but they are otherwise very happy with it more than a year later, according to a new U.S. survey.
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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...
The Age, March 30, 2015
Women in Victoria may have been wrongly diagnosed with gonorrhoea over the past five years, a new study has found.
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The Guardian, Thursday 9 April 2015 13.52 AEST
Child sex abuse prevention programs for pre-schoolers can be effective and do not seem to introduce young children to confronting themes too soon, a new report has found.
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