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Hep B made easy – A CEH & St Vincent’s Hospital Workshop
Addressing Hepatitis B within a community context More than 200,000 people in Australia are living with hepatitis B. Because the infection often has no symptoms until serious liver disease develops, only about 60% of people who are living with the virus are aware that...
DIA MUNDIAL DEL SIDA 2019 – World AIDS Day
HIV continues to be a major global public health issue with approximately 37.9 million people living with HIV globally. Among the people born overseas in Australia, the highest HIV rates in 2017 were amongst people born in Southeast Asia, the Americas (North, Central...
Unhealthy relationships and the Australian Health Care system
CEH Community Education Session in Geelong CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service delivered a very important community education session to the young people from Diversitat, also known as the Geelong Ethnic Communities Council, in Norlane – Geelong...
International Day of People Living with a Disability December 3, 2019
CEH’s ‘Communities, Discrimination and Disability’ show, 3CR On the 3rd of December this year, 3CR radio ran a 12-hour continuous broadcast to celebrate International Day of People Living with a Disability. The whole 12-hour broadcast can be found here:...
CEH wins 2019 Victorian Public Healthcare Award!
Women’s Health West, cohealth, Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health, Maribyrnong City Council, Western English Language School Human relations education program for newly arrived young people. Human Relations is an innovative and unique five-week education program...
Improving the understanding of the NDIS in Shepparton’s bicultural and bilingual workforce
Photo: David Lee, The Advertiser CEH recently had the pleasure of meeting and training Multicultural Education Aides (MEAs) of Shepparton’s English Language Centre’s (SELC). Half of them are former students who have returned to the centre as MEAs and are now giving...
Can Hepatitis B be transmitted by mosquito bites?
This, and more commonly asked questions about Hepatitis, were answered last week at CEH’s Multicultural Community Action Network’s (M-CAN) Hep B awareness session for the Indian Community. The session, titled “Is your liver as healthy as you think?” discussed all...
Let’s Drop the Jargon
On Drop the Jargon Day! Tuesday October 22 Many clients have trouble understanding and using information we give them. They also struggle to understand and get around complicated systems like healthcare. When we use jargon, technical terms or acronyms, more people...