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Women's health
Women and girls need to know how their body works.
Women and girls need to know about
- body changes in puberty
- menstruation, or having a period
- making decisions about having babies
- changes that happen as you get older
Women and girls need to have health checks for:
- breasts health
- cervix
- bones
It is important to get information and support about women's health.
To have good health, you need to know about your body and how it works.
This helps keep your mind and body healthy when you are young and when you age.
Women and girls need to have health checks and get support about:
- body changes in
Puberty is a stage of growing up when a child’s body changes into an adult body. During puberty, your body grows, and you may notice changes like body hair, a deeper voice, or breast growth. These changes are normal and happen at different times for everyone.
- menstruation, or having a
A period is the monthly bleeding that happens when the lining of the uterus leaves the body through the vagina.
- breast health
- cervical health
- making decisions about having babies
- and how they change as you get older
They are made by special glands and travel through your blood to tell different parts of your body what to do and when to do it. Hormones are like text messages your body sends to itself.
- , which is when you stop having a period
the stage of life when a woman's menstrual periods stop permanently, marking the end of her reproductive years
- healthy bones.