About Well Woman
The Well Woman annual report for 2009 is now available for download.
The Dublin Well Woman Centres were founded in 1978, with the aim of helping Irish women access family planning information and services – at a time when contraception was illegal. Throughout the 1980s, Well Woman campaigned for the right to provide information to women facing crisis pregnancy, and in the 1990s won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights.
Times change, and over the past 30 years Well Woman has extended its range of services, and now provides broader-based primary healthcare services to both women and men. We continue to influence public policy and awareness by speaking out on women’s health issues.
Our current policy concerns:
- Advocacy to bring about a free national cervical cancer vaccination programme
- Availability of breast screening
- Cervical screening and sexual health
Well Woman provides employment to over 55 doctors, nurses, counsellors, and reception/administration staff, and remains the leading provider of women’s health services in Dublin.
