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- 10 - Sexual Health Program 2010 Wrap Up from Miad Jamali It’s been an exciting start to the New Year for ECCQ’s HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis & Sexual Health team. We ended 2010 with a bang culminating with World AIDS Day, which is held on December 1 every year all round the world. Our Sexual Health team, as a lead up to this event and a show of solidarity with those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, held a World AIDS Day Forum. The event, held on November 26, was attended by about 40 people from many communities. The event was exceptionally well received with the highlight being presentations given by two men, one of Chinese background and other from Botswana, both members of the Queensland Positive Speakers’ Bureau. They were able to share their experiences of living with HIV. Participants had many questions for the speakers and a willingness to explore sensitive topics. For many of the participants it was the first time they had the opportunity to engage with someone with HIV. The speakers did a great job at dispelling some myths and encouraging discussion. We were also involved with helping organise numerous World AIDS Day events around the South East. These included an event in Logan and a number of activities around Brisbane ending with a stall and live performances in King George Square in Brisbane. Other World AIDS Day events included stalls at the West End Markets, Chermside Shopping Centre, Garden City, Virgin Blue domestic terminal, Fortitude Valley and Central train stations. Nava Moghbelpour, ECCQ’s Multicultural Youth Health Promotion Officer, and I were also involved in helping organise the annual poster competition linked to World AIDS Day. Mary Wellington, one of our bilingual workers, was also involved in organising World AIDS day events in Cairns. Mary Wellington (left) with Grace Guaigu, a PNG Postgraduate Student at James Cook University, at the World AIDS Day event organised in Cairns by Mary Miad Jamali BSocSc, MCommun is ECCQ’s Multicultural Strengthening Resource, Training & Community Development Officer Evoca: Issue 157 - February/March 2011
- 11 - Chronic Disease program from Nera Komaric Strengthening CALD communities’ access to national health programs ECCQ has launched a new initiative under the Queensland Health National Partnership Agreement and Preventative Health. The National Health Survey 2007-08 found that while 63% of those born in Australia were overweight or obese, the numbers are greater in some communities: 67% of those born in Oceania, 67% in Southern and Eastern Europe, and 65% born in Middle East and Northern Africa were overweight or obese. It also found that 71% of those born in Australia were sedentary or had low exercise, while 75% from Southern and Eastern Europe, 91% from Middle East and Northern Africa, 79% from South East Asia and 76% from all other countries were sedentary or had low exercise. CALD communities are even more at risk due to psychosocial and socio-economic risk factors that may include past experiences of trauma, racism and discrimination, alienation and isolation, and lack of cultural capital. A recent Queensland Health study on Pacific Islander health found considerable health inequities with between five to six times higher rates for all avoidable admissions; two and nine times higher rates for diabetes complications; more than double the rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admissions in one community; more than double the rate of coronary heart disease in another community; and almost double the mortality rate for avoidable conditions in one community. CALD populations in Queensland with higher levels of chronic disease, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and lower fruit and vegetable consumption. Communities South East Queensland Indian/Fijian √ Indian Bosnian/Croatian/ √ Serbian Spanish speaking √ √ Arabic speaking √ √ South Sea √ Islanders Vietnamese √ √ Samoan √ √ Cook Islander √ √ North Queensland Sudanese √ √ √ Toowoomba Darling Downs Our Living Well Multicultural program, a Lifestyle modification program recently accredited by the Department of Health & Ageing, includes culturally tailored healthy eating sessions using our 'Healthy Eating for the Prevention and Maintenance of Chronic Disease’ manual. This manual is now available in Arabic, Bosnian, Filipino, Greek, Indian, Samoan, Spanish, Sudanese and Vietnamese. The physical activity module is designed to encourage active lifestyles within CALD communities to prevent and self manage chronic disease. The module incorporates an education session and a community development workshop. The education sessions deliver culturally appropriate information on how to plan for physical activity, how to make it a part of everyday life and how it can improve the overall health of the body and mind. ECCQ’s Multicultural Health Workers (MHWs) have been effective in delivering these programs. Phase one of our CALD Measure Up program in Queensland found that mainstream social marketing approaches did not effectively reach CALD communities. Recent piloted Measure Up sessions found that employing MHW’s to deliver culturally tailored Measure Up messages was successful in increasing participants knowledge about the campaign, including the intention to make positive lifestyle changes. >>>> Evoca: Issue 157 - February/March 2011
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