Latest news and updates from MCWH - Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

Media release: Victorian Budget 2021

20 May 2021 Migrant and refugee women will continue to receive much needed in-language health education for migrant and refugee women across the state, after the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) received an additional $200,000 investment in Victoria’s…

Media release: Towards a Gender Equal Recovery: Jobs for Migrant and Refugee Women

A consortia of 12 Women’s Health Services and Gender Equity Victoria (GEN VIC) have employed 50 migrant and refugee women to form a rapid response workforce to train women to disseminate COVID-19 information and deliver multilingual women’s health education in…

Multilingual women are countering vaccine hesitancy in Victoria’s culturally diverse communities

Excerpted from ABC News By Bridget Rollason Accessed 17 May 2021 “Vaccine confidence is very low amongst women … for migrant women it’s the problem of not having access to the information,” Adele Murdolo, executive director for the Multicultural Centre for…

Are you safe at home? flyers in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dari, English, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Macedonian, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Vietnamese

Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) has developed flyers about abuse and violence at home. These flyers were checked and verified by Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health’s trained Health Educators. Are you safe at…

Fertility treatment fact sheets in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese

Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has developed fact sheets about fertility treatment in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese. You can read more about fertility treatment by using the links below: What is…

Possible health effects of IVF and ICSI fact sheets in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese

Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has developed fact sheets about the possible health effects of IVF and ICSI in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese. You can read more about the possible health…

Recovering after a disaster fact sheets in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Vietnamese

Phoenix Australia has developed fact sheets about recovery after a disaster in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Vietnamese. You can read more about recovery after a disaster by using the links below: Helping yourself after a disaster (English) fact…

Mental health and wellbeing information in Arabic, Assyrian, Burmese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Greek, Hazaragi, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Sinhala, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Tigrinya, Urdu and Vietnamese

Australian Government, Department of Health has developed fact sheets about COVID 19 and looking after your mental health and wellbeing in Arabic, Assyrian, Burmese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Greek, Hazaragi, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Nepali,…

Alcohol and pregnancy fact sheets in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dari, Hazaragi, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder has developed fact sheets about alcohol and pregnancy in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dari, Hazaragi, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. You can read more about alcohol and pregnancy by using the links below: Alcohol…

‘Women’s health funding has dropped from $4 to $2 per Victorian woman’: Health alliance calls for urgent funding fix

“Women’s health funding has eroded from $4 per woman upon commencement in 1988, to $2 per Victorian woman today. That is an effective cut of 50% due to population growth having to be absorbed by under pressure women, staff and governance committees.”

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