Tas Council for AIDS, Hepatitis & Related Diseases. Providing advocacy, education, health promotion and social inclusion. (Media contact [email protected])
Everyone should take, and is entitled to take, leave from work. However, if you are the leader of the country and a national crisis is happening, you reschedule that leave until that national crisis is over.
#whereisScoMo#FireMorrison
I was in a park and a lady loudly called out "Anyone who wants an ice cream come over here". I headed over with several others. She handed out ices to them all then asked me "Who are you?". I realised the rest were all her family. 30 years later I still cringe.
"Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Having a HIV test early is good, because HIV medication is now proven to stop HIV transmission.
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The Dried Blood Spot (DBS) HIV test is a free, easy and private way to test for HIV. It involves a few drops of blood that you collect from yourself at home. #HIV#DBS#Pozhet https://t.co/EezYakZ64k
“Being on country makes all the difference” - Jocelyn McConnell, Sth East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation. rullanih teggana = strong heart #ourvoiceATDC2018
Jessica Riley of Youth, Family & Community Connection is kicking massive goals with holistic AOD service provision on King Island by providing clients with regular visits & consistency #ourvoiceATDC2018
On collaborative service delivery - Janine Barrow from ADS North Tas is talking about a new Consult & Liaison Service aimed at empowering the broader health sector to work better with AOD clients #ourvoiceATDC2018
Prof Paul Dietze reminds us there’s been no national overdose strategy in Aus since 2001, & Hobart by far has the lowest levels of knowledge about take-home naloxone & OD prevention. “A lot of work needs to be done in Tasmania” #ourvoiceATDC2018
Dr Stephan Bright is showing evidence that MDMA psychotherapy is successful against PTSD, & yet “People’s careers are vested in the science supporting conventional treatments & maintaining the idea that psychedelic drugs are dangerous” #ourvoiceATDC2018
Dr Stephen Bright is putting the case up for why Aus researchers & clinicians should be interested in psychedelics. Time they caught up with the rest of us? #ourvoiceATDC2018
Conversion therapy not only tells kids that being themselves is not ok it can cause significant immediate, short term and long term harm. It shouldn’t be more available - we should be discussing banning it.
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