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This month, Dr Daniel Hunt won the Indigenous Doctor of the Year 2024 at the National Aboriginal Community Control Health Organisation conference in Canberra. Dr Hunt is a Jaru and Indijbardni (Indi-bardni) man and is the acting CEO of Derbal Yerrigan Health Service. His main focus is STIs, blood borne viruses and clinical governance. Proud …
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A new study and trial program led by the Kids Research Institute of Australia has helped to reduce infectious skin diseases in children by half in remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia. The ‘SToP’ program is aimed at Seeing, Treating and Preventing diseases such as scabies and impetigo, which disproportionately affects remote Indigenous children. When …
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A lack of infrastructure and testing has led to unsafe drinking water in over 500 Indigenous communities. The lack of safe drinking water now casts doubt on the government’s ability to supply drinking water to these through the future, as climate change is expected to ravage our most remote communities. Serious measures must be put …
Drinking Water ‘Unsafe’ in Hundreds of Indigenous Communities. Read More »