EP 19 - National Close the Gap Day - Closing the Gap in Sexual Health

Sydney Sexual Health Centre

This episode of the podcast marks National Close the Gap Day 2020. We are sharing some stories of people who are working towards closing the gap in sexual health disparities between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-indigenous Australians. It features Timothy Croft, Manager of the Aboriginal Health Unit in the South East Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD), John Leha, Operations Manager at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE)and Kevin Heath, Aboriginal Sexual Education Officer at the SESLHD HIV and Related Programs (HARP) unit. It discusses an advocacy paper developed by ACON - which you can find here: https://www.acon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HIV-in-the-NSW-Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Islander-population_Web.pdf To keep up to date with the latest information from Sydney Sexual Health Centre, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. To stay up to date with the latest information in sexual health, you can follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/SydneySHC https://twitter.com/SydneySHC https://www.linkedin.com/company/sydney-sexual-health-centre Host: Thomas Munro (he/him) Guests: Timothy Croft, John Leha, and Kevin Heath. We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast was recorded. We pay our respects to the elders past, present, and emerging wherever you are listening from.