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We are launching a new group antenatal program designed specifically for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, thanks to funding from Liptember – a national campaign dedicated to women’s mental health.

Health professionals across Victoria and Australia are seeing a surge in women and men contracting the sexually transmitted infection syphilis, with some women passing it onto their baby during pregnancy. Doctors from our sexual health and maternity units have come together to explain.

Our 25-year study has found that the number of premature babies surviving without disability has increased by 20 per cent since the 1990s.

Our Research Report, launching today, has thanked the healthcare professionals and medical researchers working in the hospital’s ten research centres for adapting to the nation’s urgent health needs during the course of 2020.

The Royal Women’s Hospital is leading research into the reproductive choices women make after having a test commonly marketed as a measure of fertility.

In a recently published study, our researchers call for disabilities to be routinely asked about and recorded on patient maternity records to enable disability-aware care for women who need it throughout their pregnancy and birth.