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…AFTER WHICH DR AUNTY SAID, ‘ABHI LADKO KE CHAKKAR MEIN MAT PADHNA… THIS IS NOT THE AGE. JAWAAN LADKIYO KO LADKE FASAA DETE HAI. HUME BACHKE REHNA HAI,’ SHE WINKED.
ANOTHER POOR FRIEND, AFTER MUCH COAXING, CAME OUT TO ME ABOUT STILL BEING A VIRGIN AFTER 3 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.
I SEE SOME PLATFORMS TRYING TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE—GOING TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HELP WOMEN PRIORITISE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING.
So, to give credit where it is due, here are some we vouch for, based on personal experience and reviews from friends and families:
1. Proactive For Her: This digital health platform is providing personalised and confidential healthcare solutions for women. They offer diagnostic services, such as discreet STI testing, online consultations with empathetic gynaecologists and nutritionists, as well as longer-term programs to help you manage your PCOS symptoms. They now also have a clinic in Bangalore that offers the HPV vaccine, and non-invasive breast cancer screening, among others. The two colleagues with PCOS and my friend with vaginismus, all have had a great experience with Proactive For Her. Something they all couldn’t stop talking about was how non-judgemental the doctors were. They felt safe to be open and communicate with the experts, who only offered up medical advice—nothing more, nothing less. Isn’t this how healthcare truly needs to be?!
So, to give credit where it is due, here are some I vouch for, based on personal experience and reviews from friends and families:
2. Fertility Dost: The platform offers fertility coach programs to women undergoing assisted conception, whether it’s through IUI, IVF, ICSI, or any other alternatives. But it’s not just services. Fertility Dost does a lot of work around educating women about infertility and is trying to bring it into the preventive healthcare segment. What’s more, they even support couples who are looking at adoption as an alternative or those who eventually decide not to have a child. Quite a holistic approach, if I do say so myself.
So, to give credit where it is due, here are some I vouch for, based on personal experience and reviews from friends and families:
3. NIRAMAI: They have fostered original programming based clinical gadgets to detect breast cancer a whole lot sooner than traditional techniques or self-examination. Their imaging method is without radiation, zero-contact, not painful and works for ladies of all ages. Their AI solution can be utilised as a cancer determination test in clinics for normal preventive health check-up exams.