December 1st is recognised internationally as World AIDS Day. It is the culmination of AIDS Awareness Week, which begins each year on November 24.
The aim of both events is to raise community awareness throughout Australia about HIV and AIDS issues, including the need for support for and understanding of people with HIV/AIDS, and the...
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Archive for November, 2007
Prevention is everybody’s business
Making the most of your medicines
Generally medicines work very well, but they only work well if we take them in the most appropriate way.
Medicines are used to both treat and prevent disease; they increase life expectancy and improve quality of life. However if not used correctly they can be not only ineffective but also cause harm.
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Keeping safe in those extra hours of sunlight
Most States in Australia are now “saving daylight”; in theory, at least, to give us some more usable leisure time.
Over the next few months, whether or not you live where the clocks have been adjusted, there will certainly be enough sunny weather to cause sun-related skin problems. It’s timely, therefore, that now at the...
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Turning blue for diabetes
The Opera House in Sydney, Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Old Parliament House in Canberra, Brisbane City Hall and many more buildings and monuments throughout Australia will all soon be coloured blue.
It’s not a massive repaint job, it will simply be done with lights; however, this blue tinge won’t only apply to buildings in...
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