Health Advocacy

Women's General Health Sites

Traveling abroad this summer?Want health information?
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/


Laughter is Ha-Ha-Heart Healthy
http://4woman.gov/News/english/524353.htm

www.blackwomenshealth.com

http://fwhc.org feminist womens health

http://www.securityoncampus.org  
- comprehensive listing about safety
and also sexual assault statistics reported
by all college campuses in the country

www.womenshealthnetwork.org

NOW
http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/health/whp/

http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/Women.html
excellent site- womens health links and journals

AIDS

http://www.thewellproject.org//index.jsp

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/community/agape/

Body Image and Disordered Eating

http://www.acne-resource.org/

http://caringonline.com/

http://www.healthyweight.net/

http://www.something-fishy.org

http://www.colorsofana.com

http://www.edap.org -national eating disorders association

www.hedc.org - Harvard eating disorders center

http://www.self-injury.net/

Breast Feeding

http://www.lalecheleague.org/

Cancer

www.wcn.org (women's cancer network)

http://www.natlbcc.org/

http://www.yme.org

Domestic Violence
http://www.acadv.org/dating.html      
Dating Violence

http://www.dvinstitute.org
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community

Domestic Violence Center
http://www.domesticviolencecenter.org/

International Domestic Violence and Abuse Agencies List
International inventory of hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centers and women's organizations, searchable by country, plus index of domestic violence resources in over 70 languages.

Community Shelters
Westside Catholic Shelter
http://www.wsccenter.org/

Drugs and Alcohol

http://www.ghbkills.com/ - information on ghb and other date-rape drugs

health and alcohol - Center for Women Health Advocacy page

Endometriosis

http://www.endometriosis.org

http://www.endometriosisassn.org/index.html

http://www.endocenter.org

Fertility

http://www.asrm.org/ - American society for reproductive medicine

http://www.ihr.com

http://www.ferti.net/

Fibroids

http://www.ivf.com/fibroid.html

Fitness

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exercisephysicalfitness.html

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/index.htm
has the new cholesterol guidelines etc.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hormonereplacementtherapy.html

http://www.4woman.gov/menopause/news.htm

http://www.acog.org/

Media

www.aboutface.org

Menopause

www.powersurge.com

Mental Health

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/womensoms.cfm

http://www.self-injury.net/

Osteoporosis

http://www.nof.org/PreventOsteo.html

http://www.nof.org

Pregnancy

www.storknet.com

http://www.noah-health.org

www.4women.gov

www.abcbirth.com

Click here to download a brochure for Pregnancy Resources

Current and Expectant Parents

http://www.heightsparentcenter.org

http://www.heightslibrary.org/local.php

http://www.heightslibrary.org/databases/daycare/search.php

http://www.shakerlibrary.org/Kids/links.aspx?Websites+for+Parents

http://drsenders.com/?q=event

http://www.dailydoseofreading.org/

http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/kid/

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/bab/

Sexual Assault

http://www.rainn.org

www.4women.gov/faq/sexualassault.htm

http://www.ndvh.org

http://www.nsvrc.org

http://www.pcar.org

http://www.securityoncampus.org

http://www.silentwitness.net
Silent Witness Project
addresses the issue of domestic violence

http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/
support for survivors website- faith based

Title IX & Sexual Assault
http://www.aauw.org/laf/library/assault_titleix.cfm

Stalking
http://www.actionohio.org/Stalking_on_campus.htm

http://www.lovemenot.org/
stalking website

Stalking Resource Center
http://www.ncvc.org/src/Main.aspx

Sexual Health, Reproductive Health

www.agi-usa.org (Alan Guttmacher Institute Research)

www.acog.org (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

www.sexualhealth.com (sex and disabilities)

www.positive.org pro-sex and sexual health site

www.plannedparenthood.org

www.rhtp.org (reproductive health technology project)

www.backupyourbirthcontrol.org

Violence

www.ncadv.org (violence resources)