×

News

Category:

All
All Client stories Community Events General news Media releases Our people Our service Podcast Research
Tag:

Aboriginal
All 3D mammography Aboriginal Bendigo breast density breast implants campaigns cancer support Consumer Network coronavirus Craigieburn disability diversity education Elsternwick Funding Gippsland Grampians Hamilton Heidelberg holidays Hoppers Lane LGBTI+ Maroondah mobile screening service MSS New clinic North Western Pakenham research Rose Clinic Rosebud St Vincents tech TGD Warragul

Artist Kristie Peters models a breast cancer screening shawl. Picture: Kerrie Brewer.

General news

27 May, 2021

Cultural screening shawls make their way to ACT

Local women Vicki Walker and Shelley Atkinson wearing the shawl.

3 May, 2021

Cultural shawls support Aboriginal women in Echuca through their breast screening experience

Mother and daughter Sandra and Naomi Draper after their breast screens.

27 Apr, 2021

Cultural shawls improve breast screen experience for Aboriginal women in Bendigo 

Aboriginal shawl design showing three female outlines.

18 Mar, 2021

Aboriginal community cultural shawl project to reach more women in 2021

Three Aboriginal women on the coast wearing shawls.

8 Oct, 2020

The Beautiful Shawl Project documentary available now

VAHS site director Susan Hedges and BSV radiographer Monique Warrillow screening with the shawl.

Media releases

9 Dec, 2019

Cultural shawl project increasing breast screening in Aboriginal women wins VicHealth award

VAHS site director Susan Hedges and BSV radiographer Monique Warrillow screening with the shawl.

4 Dec, 2019

Improving screening for Aboriginal women

Aboriginal woman smiling and holding a baby.

9 Sep, 2019

Pink BreastScreen Victoria vans to visit regional Aboriginal women with free handmade cultural screening shawls

General news

15 Aug, 2018

Funding boost for breast cancer survivors

Media enquiries

Email