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The Women’s Health Center, founded in 1995, is a therapeutic, consulting, educational, and sport center, located in Bureij Camp. Managed by a dedicated team of professionals trained in the psychological, social, legal, and reproductive health fields, the WHC embraces a holistic approach to women’s health through the provision of a range of high quality integrated  services and programs. These are designed to help build healthy families, physically, psychologically and socially, and healthy communities, in which women play an active and influential role in building a Palestinian society characterized by gender justice, equality and partnership.The WHC is open from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, 5 days a week and hosts a fully-equipped health clinic, laboratory facilities, and recreatio ...

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The Health Clinic provides education, preventative and curative health services for women at all stages in the life cycle, including family planning services, prenatal services, and treatment for infertility and sexually transmitted diseases. The Clinic is well-furnished with required basic medical equipment and also has an up-to-date laboratory to provide medical tests and a pharmacy to supply women with medicines and vitamins. Among the WHC’s most important programs are breast cancer prevention and early detection, as well as psycho-social support and a pap smear screening for detection and prevention of cervical cancer.  270 women regularly attend a series of programs run by the Sports and Physiotherapy Unit including exercise for f ...