Our People to Live Stronger & Longer
The PR4 Team are excited to announce the next round of Community Engagements for Aboriginal Data Sovereignty & Governance coming to your region.
Join them in powerful and informative discussions about how local Aboriginal communities can exercise ownership, control, and protection over Aboriginal data.
For more information, please contact AboriginalDataSovereignty@alc.org.au
Join us in celebrating Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week 2024, Australia’s largest event dedicated to the health and wellbeing of women, girls, and gender-diverse people.
Every September, over 200,000 individuals come together in boardrooms, tearooms, and community centers across the nation to access and share vital, up-to-date health information.
Let’s take this opportunity to prioritise our health and support one another on the journey to wellness!
Indigenous Literacy Day raises awareness about the critical need for equal access to literacy resources in remote communities. For many First Nations children and families, access to culturally relevant books and educational materials can be limited. By focusing on this issue, we not only highlight the disparities that exist but also work towards creating a future where every Indigenous child has the opportunity to read, learn, and thrive in their own language and culture.
This day is also a celebration of the incredible strength of Indigenous cultures, which have been passed down through generations via oral traditions, stories, and language. These stories are the foundation of Australia’s cultural heritage, and they deserve to be celebrated, preserved, and shared widely.
The NSW Aboriginal Health Plan 2024-2034 marks a significant step towards reforming health systems to provide culturally safe, holistic and high-quality care for all Aboriginal people in NSW.
The vision of this plan is ‘Sharing power in system reform to achieve the highest levels of health and wellbeing for Aboriginal people’. By sharing decision-making power with Aboriginal people we can challenge the status quo, we can do things differently and we can achieve different outcomes.
The development of the statewide implementation plan and a monitoring and measurement framework will commence following the release of this plan, allowing sufficient time for stakeholders to consider opportunities for action.
NSW Health is committed to ensuring people living in regional, rural and remote areas of NSW can access high quality, reliable and timely healthcare.
The Transport for Health project responds to a recommendation from the Rural Health Inquiry that calls on NSW Health, the rural and regional Local Health Districts and Transport for NSW to work collaboratively to ensure, where possible, more frequent and appropriately timed affordable transport services are available to support people to attend medical appointments in rural, regional and remote areas.
NSW Health want to hear about your experiences with using transport to attend healthcare and appointments.
This survey will ask questions about your:
• experiences with transport
• awareness of transport options
• barriers to accessing transport
• health transport needs
• ideas for future improvements.
This recent article in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) highlights the importance of screening for syphilis.
An increase in infectious syphilis notifications has tripled over the last 10 years in Australia. Of particular concern is the increasing rates of syphilis in females of reproductive age. Infections during pregnancy can be passed to the baby causing congenital syphilis which can result in serious fetal complications or death. There were 4 cases of congenital syphilis in NSW in 2023 all of which could have been avoided with treatment of the mother during pregnancy.
As per our previous commitment statement “The AH&MRC is committed to the elimination of Congenital Syphilis in Australia as a priority for Aboriginal communities across NSW…”
To help achieve this elimination, antenatal screening is critical as outlined in the NSW Health Policy Directive :
Additional resources and education on when to screen for syphilis can be found on the ASHM website.
Let’s work together to eliminate Congenital Syphilis!
The Syphilis Support Program provides Syphilis management and referral expertise to Aboriginal Health services as well as Public Health Units (PHU), GPs and maternity services.
The program prioritises follow up of people diagnosed with Syphilis during pregnancy and their sexual partners.
Offerings:
This program is coordinated by NSW Sexual Health Infolink (SHIL). SHIL is a state-wide, nurse-led, NSW Health service. SHIL is a key partner in the initiatives of the NSW HIV Strategy 2021-2025, the NSW Hepatitis C Strategy 2022-2025, and NSW Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy 2022-2026.
Your Respiratory Health Matters! is a project funded by the Department of Health. The project aims to increase awareness of the impacts of respiratory illnesses for people who use drugs, and support service providers understand and respond to client’s needs.
Common respiratory conditions include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia. Progression of these illnesses can be prevented by early detection and management.
The new webpage includes information on respiratory health, prevention, and management, as well as downloadable resources such as postcards and social media tiles which can be used by your ACCHO and available through this link.
Young, Deadly, Free has released nine new videos for young people that covers important topics like Consent, STI testing and Healthy Relationships.
Check them out here: Regional and Urban Videos – (youngdeadlyfree.org.au)
This webinar will introduce the new National Lung Cancer Screening Program, starting in July 2025.
The purpose of the webinar is to:
This is an hour-long webinar open to all ACCHO staff interested in learning more about lung cancer screening.
Date: Wednesday 28 August
Time: AEST (Eastern Australia): 2:00PM- 3:00PM
To register please visit the registration page or use the QR code below.
If you have any questions in the lead up to the webinar, please get in contact with Sarah McDermott and Bonnie Haiblen via the NACCHO Cancer team email address: cancer.team@naccho.org.au
Registration QR code:
