Spotlight on:
Indigenous health
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According to the United Nations, Indigenous people make up 5 percent of the world’s population, but constitute up to 15 percent of the world’s poor.
Caritas Australia has Indigenous healthcare programs in many countries. For example, in the Philippines, we work with the Kabihug people, who have been pressured to move to ever more remote areas away from key services such as primary healthcare. In Australia, we are working with an Aboriginal Corporation
to tackle the impacts of chronic illnesses.