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

• Easy to follow videos on how to use RATs 
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• VACCHO CEO on post-COVID-19 recovery
• COVID-19 vax update for Primary Care
• HIV prevention, treatment uptake barriers
• Climate change impacts on ‘sea country’
• Impacts of eating disorders among mob
• New process for job advertising
• Save the Date

Indigenous Medical Supplies (IMS) have developed a number of COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kit (RAT) easy to follow instructional videos. The videos are designed to help show customers very clearly how to:

• perform their children’s RATs at home
• use the RATs for adult home use
• use the RATSs within a clinical setting

IMS Managing Director Mervyn Fernando said “This initiative particularly hits home to me, having experienced the regrettable effects of not knowing or understanding diseases at a young age, particularly the major conditions that impact the lives of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Having access to professional health information and supplies has been our IMS focus over the past three years, and we will continue to …