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Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women Celebrates National Women’s Health Week

Posted by on February 21, 2012 1 comment

Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women Celebrates National Women’s Health Week










Orangeburg, SC (PRWEB) May 1, 2010

Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women is joining the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health in celebrating National Women’s Health Week. On May 15, Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women will hold a women’s health seminar, where women from Orangeburg and the surrounding areas will be able to learn about women’s health, nutrition and fitness.

The women’s health seminar will feature guest speakers who will discuss how women can create healthier lifestyles. During the seminar, participants can learn how to sign up for participation in The Woman Challenge, a program that encourages women to incorporate at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of physical activity into their lives on a weekly basis. Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women is sponsoring “Team Chrysalis” for The Woman Challenge and will have online and in-person activities to encourage and support its team members.

“National Women’s Health Week is important because it encourages women to take time for their health,” says Marcia Davis Taylor, President/CEO of Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women. “Women are often the caregivers for their families and, as a result, forget to make their own health a priority. With National Women’s Health Week, we remind women that they too need to visit the doctor, prepare and consume nutritious meals, and incorporate regular physical activity into their day-to-day routine.”

National Women’s Health Week is a nationwide initiative that calls attention to the importance of women’s health. During the week, individuals, families, health organizations, businesses, communities, and the government come together to raise awareness about women’s health issues and educate women about simple steps they can take for longer, healthier and happier lives.

National Women’s Health Week kicks off on Mother’s Day, May 9, and will be celebrated through May 15, 2010. National Women’s Checkup Day — a day where women across the country are urged to visit their doctor — will be held on May 10. In addition, The Woman Challenge, an eight-week online physical activity program, will be held May 9–July 3.

For more information about the women’s health seminar in Orangeburg, SC, please visit http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw/events/event-detail.cfm?eventID=5683.

To learn more about Chrysalis Services for Girls & Women, please visit http://www.chrysalisgirlsandwomen.org.

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Womens-Health.com Supports National Women’s Health Week With Fitness Challenge

Posted by on September 26, 2011 1 comment

Womens-Health.com Supports National Women’s Health Week With Fitness Challenge












Palos Park, IL (PRWEB) May 1, 2007

Online women’s health community, http://www.Womens-Health.com, is joining the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health in celebrating National Women’s Health Week. In addition to providing women’s health information and a supporting community to discuss women’s health issues, Womens-Health.com will be assembling a virtual team of women to participate in the WOMAN Challenge, an 8-week national physical activity challenge.

National Women’s Health Week is a nationwide initiative that calls attention to the importance of women’s health. During the week, families, health organizations, businesses, communities, the government and individuals come together to raise awareness about women’s health issues and educate women about simple steps they can take for a longer, healthier and happier life. The theme for National Women’s Health Week 2007 is “It’s Your Time: Pamper Your Mind, Body and Spirit.”

Womens-Health.com will actively participate in National Women’s Health Week by launching a virtual team to participate in the 8-week WOMAN fitness challenge, by recruiting active online community members from across the country. The site will also provide quality women’s health information, including a daily women’s health focus to encourage awareness in all community members and visitors.

“National Women’s Health Week is important because it is the one week we set aside to encourage women to take time for themselves,” says Anthos Chrysanthou, founder of http://www.Womens-Health.com. “Often times women are the caregivers for their families and forget to take care of themselves. With National Women’s Health Week we remind women that they too need to visit the doctor, make sure their screenings are up-to-date and just take a minute to think about their health.”

About National Women’s Health Week

National Women’s Health Week kicks off on Mother’s Day, May 13, and will be celebrated until May 19, 2007. National Women’s Check-up Day – a day where women across the country are urged to visit their doctor – will be held on May 14, 2007.

About Womens-Health.com

Womens-Health.com is a free online community dedicated to women’s health and wellness issues, from medical conditions to stress to pregnancy and home life. The women’s health community offers over 50 support boards, over 4,000 members, and access to a women’s health library featuring articles and streaming video provided by over 20,000 licensed and practicing physicians.

For more information about National Women’s Health Week, please visit http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw. To learn more about the Womens-Health.com community or team fitness challenge, please visit http://www.womens-health.com/boards/showthread.php?p=9539#post9539.

Contact:

Anthos Chrysanthou

Phone: 708-254-6429

Web: http://www.Womens-Health.com

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Speaking Of Women?s Health Seeks Community Investment Award Recipients and Honoree Nominations

Posted by on January 16, 2011 1 comment

Speaking Of Women’s Health Seeks Community Investment Award Recipients and Honoree Nominations










Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) August 27, 2006

Speaking of Women’s Health, a daylong event focusing on women’s health, well-being and personal safety, has announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2006 Speaking of Women’s Health community investment grants and honoree nominations. The investment grant award winners and honorees will be announced at the Speaking of Women’s Health conference on Dec. 9 at the North Raleigh Hilton. Nominations for grants are due by Sept. 1 and honoree nominations are due by Sept. 20.

Local non-profit organizations that educate women or enhance the quality of women’s health, well-being and personal safety are encouraged to apply for the investment grants. Funds for start-up organizations will not be awarded. To apply, visit the Speaking of Women’s Health web site at http://www.swhRaleigh.com.

Honoree nominations should reflect someone who has enhanced the quality of life in the local community through efforts in women’s health, well-being and personal safety. Nominations, including the nominee’s name, address, occupation, professional affiliations and a description of why she should be honored by Speaking of Women’s Health, must be sent to: Tobi Bowen, Resources for Seniors, Inc., 1110 Navaho Drive, Suite 400, Raleigh, NC 27609.

“The Community Investment Grant program enables us to further the Speaking of Women’s Health mission by awarding funds to worthwhile organizations,” said Erika Mangrum, co-chair of the event’s executive committee. “It is also an honor to recognize the accomplishments of special women as honorees. We are pleased to be able to support those who provide exceptional services to the women of the Triangle.”

About Speaking of Women’s Health:

The National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose mission is “to educate women to make informed decisions about their health, well-being and personal safety.” Founded in 1996, Speaking of Women’s Health ® (SWH) hosts more than 40 conferences and events across the country, educating and empowering women in a pampering environment. The national foundation works with community hospitals and organizations at a grassroots level, and reinvests into local women’s health through Community Investment Grants. SWH includes two Minority Health Programs – Universal Sisters and Hablando de la Salud de la Mujer; community events and education centers with free health brochures in Wal-Mart stores nationwide; and a weekly television show, Lifetime’s Speaking of Women’s Health. Please visit http://www.speakingofwomenshealth.com or call 1-866-SWH-INFO for more information.

Patty Briguglio

MMI Associates, Inc.

7406-H Chapel Hill Road

Raleigh, NC 27607

(919) 233-6600 • (919) 233-0300 (fax)

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UNFPA Head Asks World Leaders to Put Women?s Health at Heart of Development Priorities

Posted by on October 11, 2010 1 comment

UNFPA Head Asks World Leaders to Put Women’s Health at Heart of Development Priorities











United Nations Population Fund


New York, NY (Vocus) September 20, 2010

UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid today called on world leaders to increase funding for reproductive health, including family planning, and place women’s health at the centre of their national plans.

“Now is the time to move from speech lines to budget lines,” said Ms. Obaid at an event during the MDG Summit which started today at the United Nations. “Women deliver for their families, communities and nations, and now it is time to deliver for women. No woman should die giving life. There are still 1,000 women who die needlessly every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. There are still 215 million women with an unmet need for family planning and 2 million women suffering from the devastating childbirth injury of obstetric fistula.”

“Investments in reproductive health pay high dividends and advance productivity, economic growth and the rights of women,” said Ms. Obaid, stressing: “The health of women is not the focus of the health sector alone. The health of women depends on planning and investments across many sectors—in education, health, nutrition, gender equality, and infrastructure.”

“Roads and electricity, for example, should be directed towards health centres to support women and families,” Ms. Obaid emphasized. “National plans should prioritize community access to an integrated package of affordable and essential health services, including family planning, maternal health care and HIV prevention and treatment.”

Ms. Obaid assured world leaders that UNFPA was committed to helping nations strengthen their health systems and achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015.

“We are working with WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Bank to reduce high rates of maternal and newborn deaths in high priority countries,” said Ms. Obaid. “Together with the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, UNFPA aims to expand family planning to 100 million women by 2015. We are supporting national counterparts to train and deploy midwives, and also to prevent and treat fistula.”

“UNFPA fully supports the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to be launched by the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday to save 16 million lives by 2015,” Ms. Obaid concluded.

Ms. Obaid received an MDG Lifetime Achievement Award in New York on the eve of the Summit, for promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. The MDG Awards are given annually to honour exemplary contributions towards the development goals.

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

Contact Information:

Abubakar Dungus, +1 212 297 5031, dungus(at)unfpa(dot)org

Omar Gharzeddine, +1 212 297 5028, gharzeddine(at)unfpa(dot)org

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Womans-Health.Net Announces Launch of Unique Online Resource Focusing on Women’s Health Issues few Other Sites Address

Posted by on July 21, 2010 1 comment

Womans-Health.Net Announces Launch of Unique Online Resource Focusing on Women’s Health Issues few Other Sites Address










Pensacola, FL (PRWEB) January 25, 2006

After spending years suffering from a variety of female related disorders and experimenting with various remedies and therapies, Sandra Clair, a 38 year old researcher, started Womans-Health.Net to share her extensive research with other women.

“Women today know that they have difficult health challenges facing them that their predecessors didn’t have to deal with. I have made it my goal to address these challenges through this website,” Clair says.

Additionally, Clair says her objective is to offer informative holistic information that tackles difficult problems facing women’s health today.

“Too often, websites aimed at women focus exclusively on beauty, fitness and weight loss. And while these topics are important and we try to cover them as well, women today also want answers to serious questions about their sexual health, breast health, reproductive health and even about the health of men in their lives,” says Clair.

“This is what makes Womans-Health.Net unique – because we offer valuable advice on a full range of issues that matter most to women.”

Moreover, WHN offers an enormous amount of expert information on a range of topics including yoga, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and herbal remedies in its sizable network of sites.

Although a new site, WHN is growing rapidly with the addition of articles almost daily and the influx of web visitors anxious to acquire information on health topics which few sites deal with.

A woman’s health Blog (http://www.womans-health.net/wordpress/) is updated regularly, where women are encouraged to share their health experiences, find support and give advice.

Furthermore, the site offers a weekly Woman’s Health Newsletter (http://www.womans-health.net/womans-health-newsletter.htm) that visitors can sign up for, which Clair says is crammed with practical and proven health information on nutrition, weight management, herbal remedies, and physical fitness tips that are designed to improve the quality of life for women.

While a proficient writer herself, Clair pens a number of articles on the site but emphasizes that the articles at Woman’s-Health.Net are written by women for women, which she says is a part of her overall aim to make WHN a unique place on the web.

Clair encourages women to visit the site, read, submit articles and contribute to the health Blog, which she says would be a tremendous opportunity to connect with — and share with — other women.

For additional information about the site please visit: http://www.womans-health.net .

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