Indigenous News Update – Health

by Robbo on January 2, 2009

in Indigenous News

News

  • Program in Top End reduces skin infections in Indigenous population. 7 out of 10 have skin infection in first year http://bit.ly/6yhqjj
  • An Aboriginal community looks to have defied the trend of worsening diabetes with children overwhelmingly healthy http://bit.ly/8LthvW
  • Aboriginal children in Australia’s Northern Territory are four times more likely to die than non-Indigenous children http://bit.ly/5kLnqi
  • HIV infections in Australia’s indigenous population rose from 18% to 22% among it’s IV drug users from 2004 – 2008 http://bit.ly/8lLRTr
  • IT funding boost to help remote indigenous health clinics. But only in 17 communities http://bit.ly/4sB9jT

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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