Health body’s cash crisis
Australia’s National LGBTI Health Alliance – which has just added an ‘I’ to its name to include intersex people – faces a make or break year in 2011, with only months before its core funding runs out....
View ArticleStruggling Alliance gets grant
The National LGBTI Health Alliance has received a grant to develop a national mental health and suicide prevention strategy for GLBTI Australians, however, in the same month the organisation has been...
View ArticleSpeaking Out – Questions to be answered
The recently-released Draft Revised Standards For Residential Aged Care contain not a word about competence in dealing with LGBTI people. This is staggering in view of the number of submissions on aged...
View ArticleGLBTI seniors ‘overlooked’
GLBTI seniors advocates have hit out at a lack of reference to sexual orientation and gender identity in new draft Standards for Residential Aged Care being developed by the Department of Health and...
View ArticleLGBTI seniors ‘must be heard’
Peak Australian GLBTI health organisation the National LGBTI Health Alliance has called on the Department of Health and Ageing to ensure a proposed complaints charter, to be used to assess aged care...
View ArticleCall to stop gay senior suicide
GLBTI seniors advocates have urged the Gillard Government to develop a national action plan to ensure GLBTI-friendly aged-care services and stop suicidal thoughts among GLBTI elders. Gerontologist and...
View ArticleGay drug use must be addressed: Alliance
Australia’s peak LGBTI health body has called on the Gillard Government to help address drug and alcohol issues in the LGBTI community following the release of research showing gay, lesbian and...
View ArticleIntersex and Androcur
For some intersex, the suppression of testosterone is an important issue. There are several drugs available that can do this. One of these is Androcur (Cyproterone acetate). The pharmaceuticals...
View ArticleHealth funding win
Australia’s peak LGBTI health advocacy body has finally won federal core funding for the first time since its establishment in 2009. After much prodding behind the scenes, the National LGBTI Health...
View ArticleCommunity consultation on ageing
Members of the LGBTI community in Brisbane and Cairns have been invited by the National LGBT Health Alliance to add their voices to the discussion about ageing and aged care for the community. The...
View ArticleCoalition heeds LGBTI ageing issues
The Coalition supports greater awareness of older LGBTI Australians but it will wait for committee recommendations on whether it will support the federal government’s raft of reforms currently in...
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