evulva
Crewe
EVULVA is a health literacy platform used to promote education about
vulvovaginal health and care at key intervention points. These stages include
pre-puberty, puberty, fertility and family planning, peri-/menopause, and
post-menopause. We are aiming to develop content that is customized to each
user’s literacy level and to present information in a way that is culturally
affirming, trans/queer-inclusive, and 100% FREE. 6/10 adults in the UK are
unable to understand and act on health information Health literacy costs America
an estimated 238 billion dollars annually and the economic health costs of poor
health literacy in England is crudely estimated to be 4.95 billion annually.
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic/ Black and Indigenous People of Colour
(BAME/BIPOC), trans/queer and other marginalized groups are disproportionately
represented in these numbers, making this a human rights and public health
issue. EVULVA is designed to improve health literacy and reduce these health
inequalities through evidence-based research and the support of BAME/BIPOC
community leaders and allied health professionals focusing on needs specific to
culturally diverse groups. There are more than 5.8 million results when you type
‘vulvovaginal health’ into google. Some websites will have information that is
too difficult for the reader to consume while others will underrepresent
cultures, isolating people from obtaining life-saving information about their
body. More than 4 in 10 adults in the UK struggle with health content. That
number raises to 6 in 10 adults when numbers and statistics are added to health
content. Many websites hypersexualise BAME/BIPOC groups adding another level of
stress and deleteriously adding to decreased mental wellness around vulvovaginal
health concern
