January 2024 Our Significant Dates Calendar covers the dates and milestones that help us raise awareness of the issues and topics we care about in sexual health and relationship wellbeing, and related areas. The resource has been updated for 2024. The calendar is a list of 2024 events including Sexual Health Week; Mental Health Week; World Autism Day; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV...
ASPOG 2023: Exploring the Tapestry of Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynaecology (ASPOG), 2023 ASPOG 2023: Exploring the Tapestry of Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynaecology is the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynaecology (ASPOG), to be held from 24-26 February 2023 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Adelaide. It is a chance to hear from many different...
Sexual Health and Relationship Wellbeing Significant Dates Calendar 2023
SHINE SA, Posted on February 8, 2023 A new year presents itself with a great opportunity to raise awareness of the issues and topics we care about. Our Significant Dates Calendar is a list of 2023 events including Sexual Health Week, Mental Health Week, World Autism Day, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week to International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and...
Free Sexual Health Week resources from SHINE SA
SHINE SA, August 2022 Sexual Health Week runs from 12-18 September, 2022. Sexual Health Week invites all South Australians to have conversations around improving our sexual health and relationship wellbeing. SHINE SA has a number of free digital and physical resources which can help your organisation get involved. Unfortunately many people feel embarrassed talking about their sexual health;...
[Australians] with endometriosis face six-year wait for diagnosis, study finds
The Guardian, Thu 22 Oct 2020 11.55 AEDT A study of 620 [Australians] living with the painful and often debilitating condition endometriosis found [they] have to wait an average of 6.4 years before being diagnosed and often undergo surgeries that fail to improve their chronic pain. The study, published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, found despite medical and surgical...
Students could learn about endometriosis as part of sex education
Guardian Australia, Fri 13 Apr 2018 13.38 AEST Teaching schoolchildren about pelvic pain will form part of a proposed national plan to tackle endometriosis, the debilitating condition that affects hundreds of thousands of women. The health minister, Greg Hunt, will push the states and territories to commit to the plan, which was discussed at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments [Coag]...