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Gynecological and Sexual Health: General

The Red Spot: Menstrual Culture is a site about menstruation

The SPOT is a "tampon health" web site that provides information about the dangers of Tampons not frequently mentioned by corporations selling them

Blood Sisters: Menstrual Action "when the private becomes public", also gives information about menstruation and facts that are not often talked about

The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

The Our Bodies, Our Selves site is about the books created by the Boston Women's Health Collective that gave women information not found in many books, about our health. There is also information about women's bodies and health on their website.

Twenty Steps You can Take to Prevent Yeast Infections is a useful article

Lilith Web: "the women friendly adult site for exploring your sexuality"

The Yeast Infection Home Page has all the information you might need on vaginal yeast infections, how to prevent them, and how to treat them

Menopause, Hot Flashes, and Women's Health articles written from a feminist perspective

OBGYN.net "the universe of women's health"

The Sexual Health Network has information on sex specifically for people with disabilities

The Hormone Help Center has information on hormonal issues in women's health

Choice: Reproductive Rights

NEW: Books on the history of birth control, reproductive rights and freedom, the pro-choice movement in the United States and around the world, the history of abortion before it was legal in the U.S. and Roe V. Wade, can be bought right from this site, and you will be helping to support the site at the same time! Visit the Women's Bookstore.

The March for Choice will take place April 25th, 2004 in Washington D.C. it is sponsored by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NOW, the Feminist Majority and other organizations

CHOICE is a clearinghouse with a wealth of reproductive health information

The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy has information and news for women around the world and a section specifically for the United States

Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, the woman who changed the United States through her efforts to allow women to have birth control, is perhaps the largest reproductive health organization that exists for women. They provide free and low-cost services around the world, along with information on many aspects of sexual health (including diseases), not just abortion.

SAVE ROE an important initiative due to the Bush Administration - check out this site now

The Pro-Choice Public Education Project is a unique, collaborative effort by 13 different pro-choice organizations to educate people about choice.

Zero Population Growth is an activist organization focusing on the international problem of overpopulation and the need for birth control.

NARAL is an activist organization with features such as the Ten Minute Activist and information on how members of the U.S. Congress vote on abortion legislation. They also send out free bumper stickers.

Maryland NARAL has activist events and legislative information for residents of Maryland

Catholics for Free Choice - site is in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This is an international organization.

CARAL: California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League promotes choice and has news about recent legislation in the the U.S.

Choice USA is an organization affiliated with Gloria Steinem in which students do pro-choice activist work. Their website has music from The Indigo Girls and Pearl Jam that you can download. They have internship opportunities and hold benefit concerts like Rock for Choice.

The National Abortion Federation: The Voice of Abortion Providers has information from medical professoinals including fact sheets for pregnant women.

The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association supports reproductive freedom for all and provides activist alerts.

The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health is an activist organization working to improve the quality of life of Latinas in the United States.

Abortion with an Attitude is a page with many articles and resources on the topic of abortion, the rightwing, anti-choice groups and the politics of fighting for choice, the history of abortion, and resources on abortion and reproductive choice, at the always interesting Sunshine for Women website

The Abortion Acess Project

Supreme Court Watch

Pro Choice Resource Center

Face to Face International

Women on Waves

Abortion Clinics Online

Pregnancy and Child Birth

Stork Net's Week By Week Guide to Your Pregancy has information for mothers-to-be and also for fathers.

The Labor of Love has lots of information about pregnancy and child birth, and also includes a section on miscarriage and loss.

Baby Zone is also an informative site about all stages of pregnancy.

Baby Online has information for parents and medical professionals. The site includes quite a few chat rooms about various pregancy issues.

The Association of Radical Midwives is an organization in the U.K. that provides information about midwifery and natural child birth.

The Association of Radical Midwives of America is a discussion list with a web page for midwives, created in honor of the U.K. organization.

Doula Information is a site about doulas and childbirth.

DONA: Doulas of North America is an association that can help you find a certified doula not just in North America, but around the world.

The National Association of Child Bearing Centers: Birth Centers Online provides information about the experience of having a baby in a birthing center.

Pregnancy, Child Birth, and Midwifery Resources has message boards, a chat room and a database of midwives and doulas to help women locate them.

Breast Feeding: Best Bet for Babies is a page that provides tips on breast feeding, and lists of drugs that are safe and not safe while nursing.

Beyond the Baby Blues is a U.K. organization offering support to women with Post Partum Depression. They say it affects one out of every ten mothers.

Post Partum Support International is a support network and research guide with a very large amount of information about mood disorders following child birth.

Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS is a fact sheet from the World Health Organization.

Sex After Baby an article on "27 things every new mom needs to know"

Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Safer Sex

The Journal of the American Medical Association Women's Health site has a large database of articles and links for professionals and patients on STD's

Women's Health Interactive: Gynecologic Health Center has information on various types of STD's, their treatments, and advice on what to do if you think you have one.

The Sexual Health Info Center has one page of information for each STD listed and includes a few links also. It is very simple and does not take long to read.

The Body: Women and HIV/AIDS has personal stories about living with HIV and treatment issues that are specific to women.

World Health Organization fact sheet on women and HIV/AIDS from June, 2000

Another fact sheet from the WHO, also from June, 2000, on this topic is

Human Rights, Women and HIV/AIDS.

United States Centers for Disease Control information on women and HIV/AIDS - there are 557 documents to search on this topic from the Divisions for Protection.

Personal Stories of Women Living with HIV

Women for HPV Testing - about 30% of all women in the United States have the HPV virus, which is sexually transmitted, and many do not know it. HPV is the virus linked to cervical cancer.

HIV and AIDS information online a large compilation of links and recent news and research, provided by AEGIS

Enjoying Safer Sex is a very useful and informative website on protection

Lesbian Safer Sex information