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• Help keep RSV from spreading

  Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, disease
  A common winter virus called Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is currently spreading across New Zealand. The virus affects all age groups but is especially severe for babies/ pēpi and infants less than one year old

• Plan to eliminate hepatitis C as a major health threat by 2030

  Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, planning, disease
  Beehive media release: 28th July 2021 A plan to eliminate hepatitis C in New Zealand - reducing liver cancer and the need for liver transplants - has been released today by Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall

• UC Connect public lecture: How maths, science and law fight COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Lectures, disease, research, seminar, health
  What do a mathematician, a chemist, an epidemiologist and a law expert have in common? These University of Canterbury (UC) academics are all involved in vital aspects of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

• You’re never too old to get protected

  Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, older people, vaccination
  Canterbury DHB media release: 3rd June 2021 Canterbury DHB continues to progress COVID-19 vaccinations in Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities across the region, with approximately 1900 first dose vaccinations provided across 34 facilities in the region

• Take part in the Matisse RSV Vaccine in Pregnancy Study

  Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: children, volunteers, research, women, disease, immunisation, vaccination
  You’ll give your children. Could protection from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) be one of them? Midwives from the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for local pregnant women to take part in this international vaccine study

• NZ Health Survey: Provisional COVID-19 health and wellbeing data

  Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: survey, Report, data, wellbeing, disease, health
  Ministry of Health media release: 10th February 2020 The Ministry of Health has today published provisional results of the 2020/21 New Zealand Health Survey specific to how people’s health and wellbeing have been impacted by COVID-19

• To swim or not to swim?

  Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, pools, disease, swimming, safety
  Canterbury DHB media release: 27th January 2021 Recent hot weather serves as a good reminder that the end of January and right through the month of February is typically the hottest period of the year for us here in Canterbury

• Beware algal blooms in Christchurch ponds and wetlands

  Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pets, environment, water, safety, disease
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th November 2020 People and their pets are being urged to avoid stormwater ponds and wetlands in Christchurch as they could contain the potentially toxic algae - cyanobacteria

• Macular Degeneration Awareness Week: 2nd to 9th November 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: health, disease, awareness, older adults
  Macular Degeneration Awareness week is fast approaching and this campaign aims to highlight what New Zealanders risk losing if they don't take their eye health seriously

• Catch up on your free vaccination to avoid catching measles

  Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, young people, disease
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 6th October 2020 If you’re between 15 and 30 years old and haven’t had your MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, or you’re not sure, get your free immunisation now

• Getting Through Together Digest: 26th August 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, wellbeing, resilience, disease, care, lockdown
  Kia ora. You all right Aotearoa? These are truly extraordinary times. For everyone in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland, we appreciate all you're doing to keep Aotearoa safe - we know level 3 isn't easy

• Sign the petition: Fund treatments for Kiwis with severe Crohn’s disease and colitis

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: community engagement, disease, funding, medical, petition
  Crohn's & Colitis New Zealand Charitable Trust (CCNZ) is asking for your support of a petition to Parliament on behalf of the New Zealand community of over 20,000 patients who live with Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis (Crohn’s and Colitis) - in

• Selwyn Libraries supporting mask making

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: safety, disease, prevention
  Selwyn District Council media release: 25th August 2020 The Selwyn Libraries are helping out now that people are encouraged to wear masks at COVID-19 Alert Level 2

• Friends of Ireland Wellbeing Service

  Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: migrants, support, services, resources, disease, Community Groups, wellbeing
  Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte. Health is better than wealth

• $1.2m funding boost for Parkinson's disease study

  Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: disease, research
  University of Canterbury media release: 30th June 2020 University of Canterbury-led research that could help Parkinson’s disease patients learn more about their risk of dementia has received a million-dollar funding boost

• COVID-19 info for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, lockdown, disease, migrants, refugees
  The Community Languages Information Network Group (CLING) in Canterbury is collating COVID-19 information for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities

• Libraries boost home connections to low-cost online access

  Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: technology, disease, accessibility, lockdown
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2020 Christchurch City Libraries (CCL) is helping families and individuals get online at home

• Looking after mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19

  Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: mental health, mental wellbeing, disease, advice, lockdown
  Message from the Mental Health Foundation: 18th March 2020 Tēnā koe. It's a tense time for most of us. COVID-19 is scary and it's rapidly changing the way we work, socialise, travel, access healthcare, exercise, shop and live

• Stay calm and play your part to contain COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, disease, advice
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 10th March 2020 New Zealanders should try not to panic about COVID-19 and instead focus on ways they can limit its spread, advised Te Papa Hauora experts at the country’s first coronavirus public meeting

• Information on the novel coronavirus from the Ministry of Health

  Posted: Thursday, February 13, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, prevention, information, disease, advice
  There are currently outbreaks overseas of a new disease called COVID-19 (also known as novel coronavirus). The Ministry of Health is closely monitoring the situation and following guidance from the World Health Organization