From Stories to Solutions: The Role of Lived Experience in Women’s Health

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Healthcare innovation is strongest when scientific evidence is combined with the expertise of those who know healthcare best: the people who experience it.1  In women’s health, this is particularly crucial. From menopause, where 1 in 3 women globally suffer from depression,2  to endometriosis, where 1 in 6 women have had to leave the workplace due …

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FGM: In search of a way forwards 

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Written in collaboration with Betty lliadis, author of The Vagina Chronicles. In contemporary global scientific and social discourse, female genital mutilation (FGM) is recognised not merely as a medical or public health issue, but as a deeply entrenched social practice that reflects unequal power relations and rigid gender hierarchies.1 FGM is an internationally recognised violation …

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Living Through the Monthly Shift: The Reality of PMS

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Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) affects an estimated up to 80-90% of menstruating women at some point in their lives, making it one of the most common cyclical health conditions globally1. Yet despite its prevalence, PMS is often trivialised, misunderstood, or dismissed as an inevitable inconvenience of being a woman. PMS is not simply “a bad mood …

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