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Mothers reveal how language barriers impact prenatal care, as experts call for interpreters to be permanent hospital staff

National Program Manager Dr Regina Torres-Quiazon spoke with the ABC about the language barriers migrant women face when accessing prenatal care. She shared the critical need for interpreters to become permanent hospital staff to create stability in the profession and to ensure trust and continuity with patients.

Antenatal care in Australia: what is it and why it’s important?

Executive Director of the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, Dr Adele Murdolo, spoke to SBS about the importance of timely antenatal care, and why socioeconomic disadvantage can cause migrant women to access antenatal care at a much later point than other non-migrant women.

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Victorian Women are sick of small change: Underinvestment in women’s health increases illness and depression

Today CEOs of Victoria’s 12 women’s health services, along with Rainbow Health Australia, are calling for an immediate uplift in investment to secure the health and wellbeing of Victorian women, following the release of alarming data which shows Victorian women have gotten sicker, more anxious and depressed since the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic.

Extreme impacts of COVID on migrant, refugee women

Adele Murdolo wrote on the ‘Extreme impacts of Covid on migrant, refugee women’ for Broad Agenda

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Migrant women’s health in migrant women’s hands

If our recently launched Sexual and Reproductive Health Data Report and ‘Act Now’ paper makes one thing clear, it’s that despite the many changes, there is much more work to be done.

Living well with Hepatitis B videos in Arabic, Burmese, Simplified Chinese, Filipino, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese

LiverWell Incorporating Hepatitis Victoria has developed videos about Pregnancy and Hepatitis B in Arabic, Burmese, Simplified Chinese, Filipino, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese. You can watch these videos by using the links below: Ayanda is pregnant (English) video Ayanda is pregnant…

Systemic barriers impacting migrant, refugee access to care amid deepening pandemic divides

Healthcare discrimination on the basis of citizenship, visa status, race, gender, disability and other intersectional factors is a global issue, magnified during the pandemic.

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Sex-selective abortion bans: reading the fine print

Achieving reproductive justice requires intersectional thinking: we should always consider how sexual and reproductive justice intersects with other issues such as systemic racism.

Cervical screening saves lives poster in Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Indonesian, Mongolian, Nepali and Thai

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District has developed a multilingual poster about cervical screening in Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Indonesian, Mongolian, Nepalese and Thai. You can read more about cervical screening by using the link below: Cervical screening during pregnancy (Multilingual)…

Quit smoking for baby fact sheets in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Dari, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Maori, Nepalese, Punjabi, Samoan, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Urdu and Vietnamese

As a part of the ‘Baby Bundle Campaign’, Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence, Quit, Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand, and Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Alliance has developed fact sheets about smoking during pregnancy in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese,…

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