ISSWSH is a multidisciplinary, academic, and scientific organization whose purposes are:
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To provide
opportunities for communication among scholars, researchers, and practitioners about women's sexual function and sexual experience...
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To support
the highest standards of ethics and professionalism in research, education, and clinical practice of women's sexuality, and ...
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To provide
the public with accurate information about women's sexuality and sexual health.
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FACT SHEET: President Joe Biden to Announce First-Ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, An Effort Led by First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council
The new initiative will fundamentally change how we approach and fund women’s health research.
Despite making up more than half of the population, women have been understudied and underrepresented in health research for far too long. Research on women’s health is drastically underfunded, leading to significant research gaps, with serious consequences for the health of women across the country. Th...
Read MoreISSWSH Signs on to Joint Statement on Legislative Interference
Initiated by ACOG and the AMA, this joint statement was signed by ISSWSH and 74 other organizations.
As the U.S. health care system enters a post-Roe era, we, representing dozens of major organizations of health care professionals, oppose all legislative interference in the patient–clinician relationship. Our patients need to be able to access—and our clinicians need to be able to provi...
Read MoreISSWSH supports WAS Declaration
The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) remains committed to affirming and supporting the sexual rights of all people worldwide, in accordance with the World Association for Sexual Health Declaration of Sexual Rights. As an international society, we support the WAS Declaration in its totality as it addresses sociopolitical and cultural issues related to sexua...
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