Youth Week 2021: Students take charge and look to sporting improvements
Painted handball and volleyball courts, water refilling stations and sporting grounds with artificial turf are all ideas students from select
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Community Health
“It’s our happy place”: Mums from diverse backgrounds hold celebration to relieve stress levels
Women from various culturally and linguistically diverse communities of western Sydney were out in force at Guilford community centre recently
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“It was overwhelming”: Westmead researcher with hepatitis B launches world-first support forum
The website is a free source of trusted information and open discussion.
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Why is western Sydney’s diabetes hotspot costing $1 billion?
It’s been revealed more than 91,500 people in western Sydney have diabetes –costing New South Wales $1.48 billion a year
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Test often and treat early to prevent HIV in western Sydney
New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant this week released the NSW HIV Strategy 2021–2025, which aims to achieve the
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$500,000 grant to help new western Sydney parents with healthcare tips
The program helps new parents and bubs stay healthy and understand the health system.
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The condition impacting almost one in five western Sydney mums-to-be
Western Sydney Diabetes and Healthy Living Toongabbie (HLT) are hosting an online community forum with health experts to address gestational diabetes, pregnancy myths, dos and don’ts. The online forum called Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect When You’re Expecting via Facebook or Zoom will be held on Thursday, 25 March from 7pm – 8.30pm.
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It’s time to Ride, Walk, Scoot or Skate with Ride2School Day
Only two out of ten students ride or walk to school with greater use of cars, concerns about safety and
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Fortune cookies and well wishes sent to local communities for Lunar New Year
The year of the ox symbolises strength, hard work and loyalty for many people in western Sydney.
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Bilingual educators support communities to stop female genital mutilation in Australia
February 6 marks International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM/C) – and Multicultural Health team members are eager to spread the word about the NSW educational program on FGM/C.
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