Self-care in women's health | Médecins Sans Frontières Ireland
Self-care can expand access to healthcare in remote locations, unstable contexts or areas with poor health infrastructure. It can extend healthcare outside the hospital or the clinic, beyond the doctor or the nurse. It can be a pragmatic response where healthcare resources are stretched, but also enable links to care where they didn’t exist before. Let’s empower women and girls by trusting that given the right information and tools, they can engage in their own self-care to stay healthy, no matter where they live Carrie Hawks/MSF Illustration of a breast self-examination. Self-care ...