Raising awareness on sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) is imperative in improving the health education of migrant and refugee communities. A way we do this is through the Peer Education program.

Find out more about the activities of Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS), a program which works with refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and mobile populations in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria to prevent new incidences and transmission of blood borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmissible infections (STI).

The following is a selection of resources that are available online. For a more comprehensive list including books and journal articles please search our library catalogue or contact Sabina Tresise, Information Services Coordinator, via phone: 03 9418 9925 or email: info@www.ceh.org.au.

Pastor Smith explains his role as a faith leader in helping improve his community’s health. One of the ways he does this is by helping raise awareness around HIV and blood-borne viruses (BBVs) prevention and treatment, as well as helps break down stigma and barriers to treatment.

Jawid Hakimi is a volunteer for the Multicultural Community Action Network (M-CAN) and is passionate about improving his community’s health.

In March we celebrated Harmony Day in Australia. Harmony Day is an attempt to acknowledge the contributions of multicultural communities to Australian society. It is celebrated with many community festivals and local events with global food and music and traditional dress. So what’s the problem? One day alone, (or week) to come together to indulge our senses, does little more than placate individual and well-connected ethnic communities.

Hope tells us about why its important to with young people in the areas of sexual health. She explains the 'zine' project and how it helps explores issues around sexual health, sexuality, identity and relationships. Related Information Let us inform you about our...

Practical tips on how to better communicate in English with clients whose English skills may be limited.

The Victorian Refugee Health Network is conducting a project, with support from the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, which aims to build the skills of people employed in bicultural roles to consult with refugee background communities about their health priorities and experiences of using health services.

The Cultural Competence Organisational Review (CORe) tool helps organisations improve their own cultural competence. By improving cultural competence, organisations strengthen their service delivery (access and appropriateness) to people from refugee and migrant communities.

This article explores the implications of taking symbols, names, ideas from other cultures and the idea white, race and gender privilege’. Here is a QnA format of an interview Dr Ruth De Souza, leader of our Research program, did with Kelly Higgins-Devine on 612 ABC Brisbane Afternoons.

This project brought young people together to collaboratively create a zine that reflected issues which were important to them. This included messages around positive body image, fighting gender-based violence, and prevention of blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections… and much more.