Stories
- Article
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
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Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
![A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16745462_l0053663.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16745462_l0053662.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16745462_l0053666.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![A six-sided pamphlet advertising World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993, year of the family by the World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS [French version]; front page illustrates a group of men, women and children of various races stand on a pink circle representing the world with red spiked balls floating around them. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16745462_l0053664.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
California : environmental links to breast cancer handbook / Women's Environment and Development Organization.
Women's Environment & Development OrganizationDate: 1997- Books
Women, aging and health : achieving health across the life span / prepared by Ruth Bonita for the Global Commission on Women's Health under the guidance of the Aging and Health Programme.
Bonita, R.Date: 1996
- Pictures
- Online
A crowd of Indian women holding babies; representing a warning by the World Health Organization about for the vulnerability of women and HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
Date: [1994?]Reference: 669320i- Archives and manuscripts
Bc: Women's Health - Older Women
Date: 1998-2004Reference: SA/WHL/1/14Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Women's health : towards a better world : report of the First Meeting of the Global Commission on Women's Health, 13-15 April 1994, Geneva, Switzerland.
Global Commission on Women's Health. Meeting 1994 : Geneva, Switzerland)Date: [1994], ©1994