Source: Unsplash Counting the reproductive health costs of COVID-19 Remember the days before COVID-19? Back when we could move freely and access whatever healthcare we needed? Anyone following the situation for migrant women in Australia would know that even pre-COVID-19,…
Advancing the Evidence on Reproductive Choice
Advancing the Evidence on reproductive choice It is 1961. You are 23 years old, fresh-faced and having finally arrived, relieved. You step off a passenger ship and Melbourne’s port greets you with a chilly June day. There is activity all…
The path towards excellent sexual and reproductive health
It’s sometimes said that the best laid plans can often go wrong but more optimistically, a plan is often a map that marks out where we have come from and where it is we need to go. How we travel along the…
Sexual and Reproductive Health Data Report
This national data report summarises the latest available data across a range of areas that impact on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of immigrant and refugee women. The data in this report has been obtained from a variety of…
Why myths can be dangerous to your health
Every culture has them. Stories, slogans and words that help to explain the often difficult, complex and challenging aspects of the world we live in. Our language is peppered with imagined explanations—‘jumping the queue’, ‘she was asking for it’ or…