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Consumers have an important role to play in infection prevention and control. Take a look at these great resources aimed at keeping you and your family safe and healthy.  Hand Hygiene Hand Hygiene...

We can secure better health outcomes for everyone when consumers and health service organisations work together. Partnering with consumers is about actively working with people who use the healthcare system to ensure that it is safe, high-quality, and meets people’s...

Anti-microbial stewardship (AMS) is a coordinated approach to optimizing the use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs to treat infections effectively while minimizing their overuse and misuse. Healthcare consumers play a crucial role in preventing antibiotic...

Blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) (STDs) are infections that can spread through contact with blood and/or body fluids or during unprotected sexual activity. Blood borne viruses, like HIV and Hepatitis B and C, can be passed...

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Keeping your house clean and reducing the dust and dirt reduces the risk of your loved ones getting sick in the home.  Download the Fact Sheet General cleaning Focus on the most used areas of your home such as the family room, lounge room, kitchen and bathrooms. Use a...

Immunization is a way to protect people from serious diseases by giving them a vaccine, which helps the body build defense against specific infections. Vaccines usually contain a tiny, harmless part of the virus or bacteria that causes the disease, teaching the immune...

Food poisoning can be very serious for anyone. If we are healthy adults, our immune systems can deal with small numbers of bacteria and viruses, but higher levels can make us very sick, and vulnerable people can become very ill or even die from food poisoning. It is...

Being outside in summer places us at risk of bites from mosquitoes that may carry different infections such as Ross River virus, Barmah Forest virus infection, malaria and Japanese encephalitis. There are some simple things you can do to help to protect you against...

Influenza Usually called the flu, influenza is caused by a virus and spreads from person to person through the air by coughing, sneezing or talking, and by touching a person’s hands, a surface or object. How does it infect? The flu virus infects your breathing through...