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 New campaign to help abused men launched on International Men's Day

As part of the 2009 International Men’s Day celebrations, a new campaign for male victims of family violence is being launched. The One in Three Campaign is named after the little known fact that up to one in three victims of sexual assault and at least one in three victims of family violence is male (perhaps as many as one in two). The campaign aims to raise public awareness of the existence and needs of male victims of family violence and abuse; to work with government and non-government services alike to provide assistance to male victims; and to reduce the incidence and impacts of family violence on Australian men, women and children.

The One in Three website can be found at oneinthree.com.au.

 AMHF submission to the National Men's Health Policy

The AMHF has provided a submission to the National men's Health Policy (download it here). The AMHF is pleased that Australia will have a men's health policy but strongly exhorts the government to create some structure which will be able to draw together the needs of boys and men across Australia, reflecting their diversity and their varying life contexts, whether Aboriginal men struggling against marginalisation, boys in school, men in the home, recently arrived immigrant men, men in the workplace or in retirement. This is what we understand when the DoHA discussion document speaks of the "social determinants of men's health". The importance of such a coordinating mechanism cannot be overemphasised. The lack of any such structure or clear accountability for creating and monitoring successful outcomes in improving men's health, is the most important reason why so many good men's health initiatives have not been sustained in recent years.