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The Victorian Hepatitis B Strategy 2016-2020 identifies people from a refugee background and people seeking asylum as a priority group as they may be unvaccinated.

  The new Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) and Refugee Health Network of Australia (RHeaNA) Recommendations for comprehensive post-arrival health assessment for people from refugee-like backgrounds have been launched.  Below is the link to the free PDF, and har

The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, in partnership with St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Melbourne Primary Care Network has developed a short video that demonstrates the use of Teach Back in a Hepatitis B context. Teach back is a technique clinicians can use with clients to re

The Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) has a new booklet to give interpreters working in health care settings a general understanding of HIV, hepatitis B and C. Click below to access the resource, or order printed copies of the resource online.

This discussion paper explores the links between HIV and mobility in Australia, in particular the increase in HIV diagnoses in the last five to ten years among people travelling to and from regions of high HIV prevalence. The paper is an outcome of the Western Australia (WA) HIV and M

Cohealth has developed some resources for managing Ebola risk, including client flow charts, basic information for clients, posters, and signs.   Ebola basic info CoHealth Ebola infection control sign CoHealth Been in west africa – date – unwell CoHealth Have you been