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Media Release: Health in My Language COVID-19 Program to bring a new focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health for migrant and refugee communities.

The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) has announced an important evolution of their national Health in My Language program, funded by the Commonwealth Government to run until June 2025.

Bilingual health program receives funding boost in preparation for winter flu season.  

The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health is pleased to announce that the National Health in My Language program has been extended to 30 June 2023. In just six months since its launch, over 700 health education sessions have been delivered…
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Women’s health service launches program to give multilingual health education access to migrants and refugees

During the first stages of the pandemic, people who died of COVID-19 and were born overseas had an age-standardised death rate that was 2.5 times higher than people who were born in Australia. What’s causing this disparity in Covid-19 deaths? New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals that for migrant and refugee communities, limited access to in-language and culturally tailored health information is a big contributor.