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Hepatitis and COVID-19- New Videos with the Dinka community

Hepatitis and COVID-19- New Videos with the Dinka community

CEH’s M-CAN program have produced three new videos raising awareness of the importance of Hepatitis testing and treatment during COVID-19. M-CAN partnered with members of the Dinka speaking community to script and record three online conversations covering the topics...
CEH welcomes funding from NWMPHN for mental health during COVID-19

CEH welcomes funding from NWMPHN for mental health during COVID-19

CEH welcomes additional funding from the NWMPHN to address the mental health issues experienced by people from refugee and migrant backgrounds during COVID-19.  A total of $55,000 will be allocated towards the development of co-designed audio visual resources in five...
Optimise Study – COVID-19

Optimise Study – COVID-19

Credit: Image from MHSS’s Anti Viral – Covid Safer comics. These comics are co-designed resources focusing on young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Optimise Study: Optimising Isolation, Quarantine and Distancing for COVID-19 The Optimise Study is...
Pledge to #dropthejargon and WIN

Pledge to #dropthejargon and WIN

PLEDGE AND WIN! October 20 is Drop the Jargon Day. Pledge to #dropthejargon in 2020, share an example of confusing jargon or signage with us and you could win 1 of 10 free licences to access your choice of either the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health’s Health...
Talking Sexual Health this SEXtember!

Talking Sexual Health this SEXtember!

Far too often when it comes to difficult conversations about contraception and safer sex, we talk around it and shy away from the real conversations. Using no contraception, typically 85 in 100 women will get pregnant every year and currently more than 40% of...
LaTrobe University Hepatitis C research project

LaTrobe University Hepatitis C research project

Research interviews: Lived experiences of hepatitis C treatment CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service, is on the research advisory panel of a project currently being undertaken by La Trobe University. A research team from La Trobe University are currently...
Beyond the Birds and Bees

Beyond the Birds and Bees

We discussed everything about sex, sexuality and safe sex in a judgement–free environment  during M-CAN’s workshop- Beyond the Birds and the Bees at MONSU’s digital Safe and Sexy Week. Practicing safer sex means having sex in ways that prevent or decrease the...
Pledge to #dropthejargon in 2020

Pledge to #dropthejargon in 2020

October 20 is Drop the Jargon Day. Drop the Jargon Day is a day for health and human services workers to practice and promote using plain, jargon free language. 6 out of 10 people in Australia have low Health Literacy. Many Australians have trouble understanding and...
World Hepatitis Day 2020

World Hepatitis Day 2020

World Hepatitis Day 2020 was on Tuesday July 28. This year, with COVID-19 restrictions in place, we took our message about hepatitis care online. And while COVID-19 is on everyone’s minds, World Hepatitis Day reminds us of the importance of maintaining other...