Indigenous News Update – Health

by Robbo on 08/10/2009

News

  • Remote APY Aboriginal community will have 14km pipeline built by army for drinking water supply http://bit.ly/45v7iH
  • Indigenous Australians go blind at six times the rate of other Australians. http://bit.ly/ULhiT
  • Cataracts major cause of blindness in Aboriginals. Trachoma is endemic and cause of 9% of blindness http://bit.ly/12RxZ2
  • Overburden report looking at burdensome funding and reporting requirements for Indigenous Health organisations http://bit.ly/4iHlyo
  • $34.7m to fund 94 Indigenous Project officers in Divof General practice. to improve indigenous access to healthcare http://bit.ly/15sOUO
  • NT to only have 3 of 94 Indigenous Health officers. Most attend Aboriginal health Services, not normal GP clinics http://bit.ly/33tnw3

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