Vancouver Women’s Health Collective

Speaking notes at the Standing Committee on Health, November 8, 2001, for Caryn Duncan, Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). The speaking notes address provincial funding cuts to health care that disproportionately affect women, and the need for gender-based analysis of proposed health care reforms.

Speaking notes for Caryn Duncan, Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), for the Vancouver Sun Editorial Board meeting March 12, 2002. Speaking on behalf of the BC Health Coalition, a broad-based coalition of community groups, health care workers, and unions, Caryn spoke about cuts to health care services in BC, the threat of cuts to health care jobs (mostly held by women), increases to MSP premiums, and off-loading costs onto users. The speech points to the promises made by BC Liberals, and the evidence that these promises have not been kept.

"Natural Remedies for Vaginal Health" was produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) in 1993. It includes some analysis of societal perceptions of the "unclean" vagina, and benefits to using home remedies for maintaining vaginal health. Several recipes are included with instructions for use.

This document, produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, demystifies the medical term "fibrocystic breast disease," and calls into question the tendency of medical practitioners to label women's bodies diseased or damaged. The document then goes on to describe different breast changes or conditions that often fall under the term "fibrocystic breast disease," including breast pain, breast lumpiness, and breast cysts. The document then describes different medical procedures used to determine whether lumps or cysts are benign or malignant, and also offers a comparison of natural treatments and drug treatments.