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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health

The WA AIDS Council works to provide holistic and culturally appropriate services for and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communies in the metropolitan area and rural and remote areas of Western Australia.

The principles of the program we provide are:

  • Holistic Health – Physical well-being, social, emotional and cultural well-being the whole of community.
  • Self determination – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in all aspects of health care delivery – planning and development, implementation and evaluation.
  • Right for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to choose different models of health care with health programs tailored to fit the needs of the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community groups.
  • Health care services are culturally appropriate and are accessible.

We provide tailored HIV/AIDS education and prevention knowledge and training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community organisations and non-Aboriginal organisations.

We encourage and pursue joint initiatives with Aboriginal agencies and non-Aboriginal agencies with the aim of increasing capacity of ongoing appropriate interagency responses and commitment.

Find out more about the WA AIDS Council's support of reconciliation.
Read Issue 1 of Ngalang News, a newsletter produced by the WA AIDS Council Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group here

Resources

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Us Mob and HIV ASH Project Posters
   

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Contacts

For enquiries regarding the ASH Project, please contact:

waac@waaids.com 

08 9482 0000

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Our Mission

To minimise the impact and further transmission of HIV, other blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections. To reduce social, legal and policy barriers which prevent access to health information and effective support and prevention services.

WA AIDS Council would like to acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of this country throughout Australia, and their strength, resilience and connection to land and community. In particular, the WA AIDS Council would like to acknowledge the Wadjuk people of the Noongar Nation as the traditional custodians of the land in which our office is located.

 

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