Turkish Health and Family Planning Foundation (TAPV)
TAPV will digitalize and bring online their education programmes, including their sexual health education program for adolescents, training of trainers on women’s health & gender equality and women’s health seminars. They will be made accessible for women, adolescents and teachers.
Year founded
1985
Location
Istanbul, Turkey
Sector
Sexual and reproductive health & gender equality
Stage
Idea stage
Members
Nurcan Müftüoğlu
Executive Director
Hazal Günel
Women Empowerment Program Coordinator
Seda Çavuşoğlu
Deputy Executive Director
Asuman Dener
Gender Equality Program Coordinator
Nurşen Kanbur
Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialist
The challenge
Menopause is a natural life stage of every woman; however, how it is experienced is highly affected by perception, awareness, and availability of supporting mechanisms. Women’s misinformation and negative perceptions and attitudes toward menopause and supporting treatments may deepen their complaints during this period. There are limited existing resources with a right-based and gender equality perspective in Turkey to support women to ease their menopause experience. It is necessary to provide a platform where they can share experiences and knowledge with other women, receive consultations and get informed about coping mechanisms.
The solution
To improve life quality during menopause and support women, we aim to create a platform that will raise awareness about perimenopause and the menopause period itself. The platform will serve as a support mechanism and provide information on problems and life changes that women may experience and things that should (not) be done during this period.
