This document is a four year sexual and reproductive health promotion strategy for the western region of Melbourne. It incorporates primary prevention initiatives that work to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes for the community by redressing the social, cultural and economic drivers of sexual and reproductive health inequities.

There is growing recognition within Australia of the need for improved awareness, education, diagnosis, treatment and research into endometriosis and associated chronic pelvic pain. This plan has emerged from the combined efforts of patients, advocacy groups, clinicians, researchers and parliamentarians to have endometriosis acknowledged as a chronic condition and a substantial health burden in Australia.

This resource looks at how sexual and reproductive health is experienced and understood by recent migrant and refugee women.

Use of assisted reproductive technology treatment cycles There were 61,774 assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment cycles performed in Australia and New Zealand in 2010 (56,489 and 5,285 respectively), representing decreases of 13.4% for Australia and 1% for New Zealand from the previous year. The substantial decrease in cycles in Australia coincided with a change in...

This is the fifteenth annual report on the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in Australia and New Zealand. The report presents data on ART treatment and donor insemination cycles undertaken in 2009, and the resulting pregnancies and baby outcomes. Use of ART treatment cycles There were 70,541 ART treatment cycles reported in Australia and...