Hepatitis B and hepatitis C affect 325 million people globally. While Australia has made significant advances in the response to hepatitis B in recent years, the illness remains a serious public health challenge. According to the latest Hepatitis B Mapping Project...
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) don’t discriminate. Anyone who is sexually active can get an STI without knowing it. STI Testing Week is an annual campaign initiated by the Victorian Government’s Department of Health (DoH), to highlight the importance of...
“SEXtember” is an informal annual campaign to encourage the discussion of sexual and reproductive health throughout the month of September. This SEXtember, Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH), together with 1800 My Options, organised SEXtember forum 2021:...
A workshop for bicultural and bilingual workers. Did you know that up to 30% of people who had COVID will have long-term side effects? Communities in Melbourne who have been affected by COVID are at higher risk of their members having Long COVID. The Centre for...
North Richmond Community Health’s Healthy Communities team recently took part in our flagship Online Health Literacy Course. Watch the video above to hear how the team used their learnings from the course to make their website easier to use for clients. CEH...
Kanwal Saleem (pictured), of CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service, recently spoke about ‘Cultural Competence in Sexual Health Care’ and its importance for people from migrant and refugee backgrounds as part of the Learn over Lunch (LoL)...
Image: Long COVID Project Officer, Ambereen Farouque. Have you heard of Long COVID? In countries that have experienced high numbers of COVID-19 infections, these post-COVID symptoms, that can last for months after the initial infection, are becoming a public health...
Image: L-R; Vaccine Voices Advisers Simin Tuncer, Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian communities; Mukhtar Mohammed, Arabic-speaking communities; Mohammad Daud Karimi, Afghan community. CEH is one of three agencies involved in a new state-wide project aimed at encouraging...
Did you know that nine out of ten people living with hepatitis globally don’t know they have it? Wednesday 28 July 2021 marks World Hepatitis Day (WHD). WHD is acknowledged each year to bring the world together to raise awareness of the global burden of viral...
““I am getting vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect myself and my loved ones”, Mabior Mabior tells the camera in his native Dinka tongue. He’s one of a group of 60 volunteers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities who have been...
