One Disease is a non-profit philanthropic organisation with a core mission of eliminating Crusted Scabies as a public health concern in the Northern Territory.
Scabies underlies many skin infections in the NT’s remote indigenous communities. These infections can in turn lead to sepsis, Acute Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatic Heart Disease, and chronic kidney disease
This Podcast series - ‘Scratching the Surface - the Scabies Story’ is part of One Disease’s commitment to provide Scabies and Crusted Scabies education to health services in both remote communities and urban settings.
In this episode our guests are two ladies with long and distinguished careers working in various fields of Aboriginal Health in the NT – Bernie Shields, who started out working in Darwin’s East Arm Leprosarium in the 70’s and Marlene Liddle who was the driving force of the Strong Women Strong Babies program.
Your hosts in Darwin’s ‘Studio G’ are Brad Firebrace from Skinnyfish Music and One Disease’s Geoffrey ‘Jacko’ Angeles.
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