Wellbeing Of Women

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Wellbeing of Women is a charity that raises money to improve womens health through research, training and education.

We fund medical Research to develop better treatments

We support specialist Training to improve doctors effectiveness

We provide Education for women so that they can stay well

In the past 50 years we have invested millions of pounds improving womens health and our research has contributed to many developments we now take for granted:

Pain relief in childbirth, Baby scans and screening during pregnancy, IVF, Testing for pre-eclampsia, Smear tests (Cervical Cancer Screening), HPV Vaccine

Half of all women in the UK however, still experience a reproductive or gynaecological health problem during their lifetime. In the UK:

17 babies a day die at or near birth

140 women a week die from gynaecological cancers

2 million women suffer from endometriosis