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An expert resource for medical professionals
Provided FREE as a service to women’s health

The Alliance for
Global Women’s Medicine
A worldwide fellowship of health professionals working together to
promote, advocate for and enhance the Welfare of Women everywhere

An Educational Platform for FIGO

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
Clinical guidance and resources

A vast range of expert online resources. A FREE and entirely CHARITABLE site to support women’s healthcare professionals

The Global Academy of Women’s Medicine
Teaching, research and Diplomates Association

The Welfare of Women (WoW) Global Health Programme

Health Guidance for Women Throughout Their Life Course

Practical and expert guidance for women everywhere – provided at different levels of comprehension and available in different languages

This programme is currently being developed and as any Topic is covered it is shown in BOLD purple on the list below. You can view what is available simply by clicking on that bold title. Please note, however, that whilst it is our intention to make these Topics available in a wide range of different languages in due course that process will not start until all the Topics have been completed and presented in English.

SELECT THE TOPIC YOU WISH TO VIEW
  • A. Early years
  • Normal reproductive cycle
  • Preparing for pregnancy
  • Antenatal care
  • Diet and Nutrition
  • Teenage pregnancy
  • D. Fertility and other issues
  • Infertility
  • Contraception
  • Postnatal family planning
  • Abortion care
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • E. Issues in later life
  • Menopause
  • Postmenopausal bleeding
  • Preventing cervical cancer
  • Understanding breast cancer
  • Urinary problems
  • Women’s health in later years
  • F. Health rights of women
  • The respectful care of women

Additional Topics will be added later

Prepared by a team of over 30 expert clinicians from 7 different countries, under the Editorship of Dr Kate Lightly (University of Liverpool) – supported by a Specialist Editorial Board:

Dr Anna Graham, Kings College Hospital, London – Dr Rosemary Townsend, University of Edinburgh – Dr Lydia Alice Hawker, University of Liverpool – Professor William
Parry-Smith, Keele University - Dr Alice Norah Ladur, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine – Dr Jo Welsh, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Madeleine Upham, University of Liverpool

The cost of producing this resource has been funded, in part, by GSK thanks to the provision of a generous and unrestricted educational grant. GSK has had no editorial input or control over the content of these materials.

For further details about this programme please click here.