Periods should not be painful
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What happens when periods are painful? How do painful periods caused by endometriosis, PCOS or pelvic pain, affect people’s lives?
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Is healthcare for babies and mothers really free?
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Maternity care in NZ should be free for all residents and citizens. But how much of the post-partum care women/people receive is actually free?
Read MoreBook review: Pain and Prejudice - chronic illness, pain and its disproportionate impacts on women
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Pain and Prejudice is a book about the structural prejudice that the health system displays towards women’s pain. It’s a memoir about having endometriosis and a powerful history of how medicine has treated women through the ages, and failed to take women’s pain seriously, with often dire outcomes.
Read MoreHaving an autoimmune disorder in a measles outbreak
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On my baby’s immunisation list in his Plunket book, the rotavirus vaccine remains unchecked. The measles vaccine will remain unchecked for some time too, until his immune system can cope with it. I can’t have live vaccines, and as a result, neither can he.
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