Womens Health - Organisations
American Medical
Women's Association
Dedicated to the care of the woman patient and to improving the
personal and professional well-being of its members. Information
includes health advice and guidance for the public as well as
a contact point for physicians and students.
California Black
Women's Health Project
CABWHP focuses on empowering Black women to take personal responsibility
for our own health and to advocate for changes in policies that
adversely affect Black women's health status. Iincludes updates,
event announcements, publications, archives, resources, funding,
training, multimedia, blogs and link to old site.
Endometriosis
SHE Trust
We offer help, information and support to women with endometriosis
and everyone else interested, to be able to make informed choices
about conventional, nutritional and complementary therapies available.
Feminist Women's Health
Centre
Provides empowering women's health information on
abortion, contraception, and reproductive freedom and reproductive
justice.
Hotgirls,
Inc.
A small, volunteer-led, nonprofit organization. Our mission is
to improve the health and lives of black young women and girls
by providing culturally relevant and age appropriate, girl-centered
information and programming, inspired by hip hop and youth culture.
Jacobs Institute for
Women's Health
A non-profit organization working to improve health care for
women through research, dialogue, and information dissemination.
Magee-Womens
Research Institute
MWRI - one of the first research centers to focus on health issues
specifically related to women and infants.
National Center
for Excellence in Women's Health
The UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health (CoE)
has developed a new model to transform the traditional Academic
Medical Center from a fragmented set of activities into a dynamic
and multi-disciplinary health care system focused on the needs
of all women.
National
Women's Health Foundation
The non-profit support foundation of the National Women's Health
Organization clinics, providing birth control and abortion services,
patient education, and legal initiatives against anti-abortion
harassment.
Office of Research
on Women's Health (ORWH), NIH
ORWH serves as a focal point for women's health research at the
NIH. Works in partnership with the NIH institutes and centers
to ensure that women's health research is part of the scientific
framework at NIH and throughout the scientific community.
Project Safe
Project SAFE's mission is to promote human rights-based public
health among women working in prostitution on the street in Philadelphia.
Society
for Women's Health Research
The Society for Women's Health Research is the nation's
only non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the
health of all women through research, education and advocacy.
The Veerni Project
The Veerni Project is guided by the core belief that when women
are healthy and educated, they will have the strength to create
positive changes in their lives as well as in their communities
and gain economic independence.
Women's Health Council
(Ireland)
The Women's Health Council is a statutory body set up to advise
the Minister for Health and Children on all aspects of women's
health. Its mission is to inform and influence the development
of health policy to ensure the maximum health and social gain
for women in Ireland. The membership of the Women's Health Council
is representative of a wide range of expertise and interest in
women's health issues.
Women's Health
Statewide
Government-funded health service for the women of South Australia.
Site features current projects, activities and research, recent
publications, health questions and answers.
World
Health Organization Women's Health
Provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and
events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various
WHO programmes and offices working on this topic.
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