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Understanding risks of stillbirth and what you can do to reduce it
Our health educator Gagan Kaur Cheema spoke to SBS Punjabi about the Maternal Health Education for Migrant and Refugee Women project which aims to increase awareness on the issue of stillbirth among migrant women.
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.
Our response to 2022/23 Victorian state budget: A welcome boost to equity and wellbeing for migrant and refugee women
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is delighted that migrant and refugee women will receive a funding boost of $1.57m over two years from today’s Victorian 2022/23 budget, for much needed women’s health programs specifically targeting migrant and refugee women across the state.