Welcome to the Victorian Refugee Health Network.
We work to develop responsive health service systems that meet the needs of people from refugee backgrounds, including asylum seekers.
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.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the world’s most common infectious diseases. Unfortunately, HBV often goes undetected in the Victorian population. Studies show that people from refugee backgrounds (and all overseas-born Australians) are at high risk of under-detected HBV infection i