Local research highlights healthcare barriers

Local research highlights healthcare barriers

When Bellarine resident Tess began to navigate her way through perimenopause she experienced first-hand the barriers women and gender diverse people encounter when trying to access sexual and reproductive healthcare. Tess considered herself more or less privileged; she was white, middle-class, healthy, university-educated and came from a medical family. So it came as a shock to realise that getting well-informed, compassionate and forward-thinki…