FEBRUARY 20 2019 A new report of the health and welfare of the country’s young Aboriginal population has shown the state’s population has the highest employment rate of all the states. In the Australian Capital Territory, Aboriginal people aged between 15 to 24 years old had a job followed by 43 per cent of the Tasmanian population.ADVERTISING ... Read More
The annual report to Parliament on progress in Closing the Gap This is the final report against the framework established in 2008, and marks a transition to the next phase of Closing the Gap. In December 2018, COAG committed to forming a genuine formal partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to finalise the ... Read More
FEBRUARY 12, 2019 The Territory Labor Government is boosting health services with applications now open for Aboriginal Health Practitioner Scholarships. Aboriginal Health Practitioners play a crucial role as cultural brokers and agents of change ensuring comprehensive primary health care is provided and culturally appropriate health care is delivered through prevention, early detection and early intervention. ... Read More
06 Feb 2019 Indigenous children are almost twice as likely as non-Indigenous children to suffer unintentional injury – and the situation hasn’t improved for more than 15 years, a new study shows. Indigenous children are almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuries such as falls, burns and poisoning than non-Indigenous children, a new study ... Read More
25 January Australia aims to “virtually eliminate” HIV transmission by 2022, according to the health minister’s new national HIV strategy. This ambitious goal has been made possible by biomedical HIV prevention, a new and highly effective way of preventing HIV using medications. But new inequalities are emerging between those who can and can’t access these medications ... Read More
18th Nov 2018 12:00 AM WITH almost half of all people diagnosed with HIV in the late stage of infection, NSW Health is marking HIV Awareness Week by urging those at risk to be regularly tested. During HIV Awareness Week (November 23-30) and in the lead up to World AIDS Day on December 1, NSW ... Read More
By Jocelyn Garcia 8 December 2018 — 10:21am A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded a $70,000 grant towards a HIV-test vending machine pilot program to target people who may avoid traditional testing methods in Brisbane. UQ senior research fellow Dr Owain Williams received one of six research project grants, and the largest amount, from ... Read More
3rd December 2018 A new single-dose, two-drug regimen to treat HIV, dolutegravir and rilpivirine, is to be listed on the PBS. The 1 December listing will substantially reduce the cost of the drugs for patients, which currently retail at $10,800 a year. The step comes as the Federal Government launches Australia’s eighth national HIV strategy, which aims to virtually ... Read More
Jessica Dunne 10 daily News Reporter Sat 01 Dec 2018 5.37 AM HIV rates among the Indigenous community are 1.6 times higher than the rest of the country. At the same time, HIV in Australia is going down for all groups other than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. It is estimated that there are 582 ... Read More
