Many women who suffer from vaginitis have kept silent about their illness because they think it is shameful to have such a disease. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) has publicized the problem, referr...Many women who suffer from vaginitis have kept silent about their illness because they think it is shameful to have such a disease. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) has publicized the problem, referring to it as a "culture of silence"inherited from traditional thinking. The coalition has made attempts to improve women’s health conditions by changing people’s misconceptions about the disease. In 1997, under a grant from the American Ford Foundation, the Sichuan Provincial Women’s Federation carried out a study on women’s repro-ductive health, aimed at "breaking the silence."展开更多
文摘Many women who suffer from vaginitis have kept silent about their illness because they think it is shameful to have such a disease. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) has publicized the problem, referring to it as a "culture of silence"inherited from traditional thinking. The coalition has made attempts to improve women’s health conditions by changing people’s misconceptions about the disease. In 1997, under a grant from the American Ford Foundation, the Sichuan Provincial Women’s Federation carried out a study on women’s repro-ductive health, aimed at "breaking the silence."
