23 Mar 2022 | NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health News [Video]

• Birthing on Country services empower women
• Cultural safety and humility program
• iSISTAQUIT supports pregnant women
• First Nations Youth and Justice System
• Non-GP Specialist Trainee Support Program
• AMA wants tax on sugary soft drinks
• LGBTQA+ mental health and wellbeing project
• New process for job advertising
• Save the Date – Australasian Hepatitis Conference

Image in feature tile is of South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Corporation Waminda midwife Melanie Briggs sourced from the South Coast Register.

Many Australian women rely on and trust maternity services to see them through pregnancy, labour and the early stages of new parenting. But for First Nations women, these same services can be confronting and can result in poor outcomes. Many women must travel far from family and community to birth. And if they do, they often feel misunderstood and judged by mainstream health services.

There is another way. Birthing on Country means First Nations women give birth on their ancestral country. It acknowledges First Nation peoples’ continued ownership of land and …