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The Women's Integrated Health Project
WIHP is a Colorado-based organization whose mission is to ensure the mental, physical and emotional health of both women and girls through multidisciplinary therapeutic intervention.
They have a fabulous list of local support groups and resources for Denver and Boulder areas.
American
Medical Women's Association
AMWA is an organization of 10,000 women
physicians and medical students dedicated to serving as the unique voice
for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine.
The Breast Cancer Fund aims to end breast cancer through public education, advocacy, patient support initiatives and research that promote: elimination of the preventable causes of the disease, including those in the environment; replacement of mammography with safer, more reliable screening methods; development of non-toxic treatments; and access to the best available medical care and information for everyone.
Eating
Disorder Awareness and Prevention
EDAP is a national nonprofit organization
dedicated to the elimination of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction
through prevention efforts, education, referral and support services,
advocacy, training, and research.
Feminist
Women's Health Center
We have a vision of a world where all women freely make their own decisions regarding their bodies, reproduction and sexuality--a world where women can fulfill their own unique potential and live healthy whole lives.
FWHCs
are located in Atlanta, Georgia; Eugene and Portland, Oregon; Oakland,
California; Concord and Greenland, New Hampshire; Yakima, Tacoma and
Renton, Washington. But even if you don't live in these areas, it's
still a really good website.
GayHealth.com is the first health and wellness site dedicated to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender men and women.
La Leche League was founded to give
information and encouragement, mainly through personal help, to all
mothers who want to breastfeed their babies.
This site is for lesbians with cancer. It has a wonderful links page!
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations
NABCO is the leading non-profit
information and education resource on breast cancer and a network of over
400 member organizations nationwide. NABCO provides information to medical
professionals and their organizations and to patients and their families,
and advocates for beneficial regulatory change and legislation.
You
can sign up to receive an e-mail message reminding you to schedule your
next breast exam. How cool is
that?
National Asian Women's Health Organization
NAWHO focuses primarily on the education
and empowerment of Asian American women, believing that health promotion,
disease prevention, and policy improvement efforts could better involve
and reach the men, women, and children of Asian American communities.
The National Eating Disorder Information Centre
NEDIC provides information and resources
on eating disorders and weight preoccupation.
The National Partnership for Women & Families
NPWF
is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public
education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality
health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of
work and family.
The National Women's Health Information Center
NWHIC provides current, reliable,
commercial and cost-free, health information to women and their families.
This
site is not specifically geared towards women, but they do have some good
info about women in Afghanistan. See the PHR 2001 Report:
"Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan." his
site was recommended by Denver University Professor Tracy Ehlers.
WHI's mission is to be a unique,
interactive learning environment where women gain knowledge and mastery of
their health through the multidisciplinary resources that are offered for
consumers and women's health professionals.
Reproductive Health & Rights
Colorado
National Abortion Rights and Reproductive Rights Action League
The mission of Colorado NARAL is to
develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to
guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the
full range of reproductive health choices, including preventing unintended
pregnancies, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.
CFC is engaged in research, policy analysis, education and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health. The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, as the only group of public interest lawyers exclusively dedicated to reproductive rights advocacy, stands in defense of a woman's right to decide whether and when to have a child. We face down anti-choice zealots and their every effort to thwart Roe v. Wade.
The
Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Choices Campus Community is the world's largest pro-choice feminist campus network.
This is a project of Feminist Majority Foundation, so you know it must be good!
Global
Reproductive Health Forum
The Global Reproductive Health Forum at Harvard aims to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions about reproductive health, rights and gender on the net.
International
Planned Parenthood Federation
IPPF's mission is to promote and defend
the right of women and men, including young people, to decide freely the
number and spacing of their children, and the right to the highest
possible level of sexual and reproductive health.
National
Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
NARAL's mission is to protect and
preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that
improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL works to
educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health
issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government.
The Directory is hosted by
Concentric Media and compiled by the Body
Politic. Our aim is to make this directory as complete as possible, with
fax and phone numbers, plus e-mail and web page listings.
This
is an awesome resource for finding family planning clinics in any state of
the union.
National
Women's Political Caucus
NWPC is the only national, grassroots
membership organization dedicated to increasing the number of pro-choice
women in elected and appointed office regardless of party affiliation. Our mission is to increase women's participation in the
political process and to identify, recruit, train and support pro-choice
women for election and appointment to public office.
Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence.
WOW
works to empower women to make conscious, well-informed decisions about
family planning; prevent unwanted pregnancy; ensure safe and legal
abortion; reduce unnecessary physical or psychological suffering and
deaths from illegal abortions; and catalyze support for the liberalization
of abortion laws worldwide.
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