Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc.
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Optimising maternity care and breastfeeding outcomes for Aboriginal women in Victoria

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La Trobe University

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This partnership between Mother and Child Health Research Centre and VACCHO aims to explore possible strategies to promote breastfeeding; and to gain an understanding of breastfeeding initiation and maintenance for Aboriginal women across Victoria. The project will: explore strategies that may increase breastfeeding rates among Aboriginal women in Victoria; collect and report on breastfeeding outcome data for Aboriginal women in Victoria using routinely collected data sources and; work with Koori Maternity Services (KMS) to explore the feasibility of implementing  models of maternity care that provide continuity of midwife care to Aboriginal women in Victoria.