Hesperian Health Guides
Where Women Have No Doctor A health guide for women
Table of Contents
- Introductory Material
- Chapter 1: Women's Health Is a Community Issue
- Chapter 2: Solving Health Problems
- Chapter 3: The Medical System
- Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies
- Chapter 5: Health Concerns of Girls
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Chapter 6: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Staying Healthy during Pregnancy
- Common Problems during Pregnancy
- Risks and Danger Signs during Pregnancy
- Prenatal Care (Check‑ups during Pregnancy)
- Preparing for Labor and Birth
- Giving Birth
- Difficult Births
- Danger Signs for the Baby at Birth
- Caring for the Mother and Baby after Birth
- Women who need more support
- To the Father
- Working for Change
- Chapter 7: Breastfeeding
- Chapter 8: Growing Older
- Chapter 9: Women with Disabilities
- Chapter 10: Staying Healthy
- Chapter 11: Eating for Good Health
- Chapter 12: Sexual Health
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Chapter 13: Family Planning
- Benefits of Family Planning
- Choosing to Use Family Planning
- Choosing a Family Planning Method
- Barrier Methods of Family Planning
- Hormonal Methods of Family Planning
- Intra‑ Uterine Devices (Devices that go into the womb)
- Natural Methods of Family Planning
- Traditional and Home Methods
- Permanent Methods of Family Planning
- New Methods of Family Planning
- Choosing the Best Method
- Emergency Methods of Family Planning
- Working for Change
- Chapter 14: Infertility (When You Are Not Able to Have a Baby)
- Chapter 15: Abortion and Complications from Abortion
- Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Other Infections of the Genitals
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Chapter 17: HIV and AIDS
- What Are HIV and AIDS?
- Why HIV and AIDS Are Different for Women
- Preventing HIV
- The HIV Test
- Living Positively with HIV Infection
- Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breast-feeding
- Care for Persons with HIV or AIDS
- Staying Healthy for as Long as Possible
- Common Medical Problems
- Caring for Someone Who Is Near Death
- Working for Change
- Chapter 18: Violence Against Women
- Chapter 19: Rape and Sexual Assault
- Chapter 20: Sex Workers
- Chapter 21: Pain in the Lower Abdomen
- Chapter 22: Abnormal Bleeding from the Vagina
- Chapter 23: Problems of the Urine System
- Chapter 24: Cancer and Growths
- Chapter 25: Tuberculosis
- Chapter 26: Work
- Chapter 27: Mental Health
- Chapter 28: Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Chapter 29: Refugees and Displaced Women
- Chapter 30: Female Genital Cutting
- Chapter 31: Use of Medicines in Women's Health
- Table of Medicines: The Medicines Pages
- Health Care Skills
- Other Women's Health Resources
- Other Books from Hesperian
- Weight and Volume Conversions
This page was updated:01 Feb 2021