The FEMM Foundation is a knowledge-based health program for women inspired by women’s right to be informed participants in their own healthcare and to make voluntary decisions based on options, information, and understanding. The Foundation is dedicated to health education, medical research, and improving reproductive health care to advance women’s health.
It is important to accelerate our efforts to achieve sustainable development. However, acceleration must prioritize durable solutions over fast ones. The right to the “highest attainable standard of health” is recognized by international law and reflected in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3. Good health enables participation and inclusion in society. Women constitute approximately half of the population but remain more vulnerable to health problems. Good healthcare empowers women, promoting gender equality (SDG 5).
Hormonal imbalances can affect women and girls’ long-term overall health. They can also affect women and girls’ ability to complete their education, engage in work, and plan their families, interfering with their ability to participate in all areas of their lives.
Sustainable development requires health care that addresses underserved female reproductive health needs.
FEMM’s researchers have rethought women’s health. They have found that a woman’s hormonal health is intrinsically linked with her overall health. They have developed better diagnostic criteria to diagnose and treat at the root conditions that often only receive symptom management. Women must be informed during reproductive healthcare counselling about how their bodies work, what is necessary for health, how various family planning methods affect their bodies, and how soon after discontinuation their fertility will return to make informed decisions.
FEMM teaches women to understand the importance of hormonal health to their overall health and how to monitor signs of hormonal activity. This empowers them to make informed health decisions, identify abnormalities, and seek appropriate health care and treatment, as well as achieve health and family planning goals.
Information-based health education and medical care is uniquely well-suited to meet these needs while respecting individual choices and values. FEMM classes educate women about the science of their bodies, how to identify when they are fertile, and how to achieve or avoid pregnancy. Knowledge-based programs do not rely on supply chains; they accompany women everywhere they go.
FEMM has developed a free, customizable app to assist. Women who use the app can track their observations and symptoms to better understand their bodies and health. It also provides insights into what a woman is experiencing in her cycle, flags potential health concerns, and connects women with medical professionals.
FEMM’s Medical Management program trains doctors to diagnose and treat reproductive health problems, incorporating recent research on complex hormonal interactions. FEMM has developed innovative protocols that allow doctors to identify underlying problems with precision and treat them effectively. This medical support provides treatments that help women to live healthy lives.
The FEMM Foundation urges ECOSOC and Member States to adopt programs that educate women about their bodies and empower them to take charge of their health and fertility. FEMM is prepared support these efforts.
Pandemics and the effects of climate change are unfortunately inevitable. It is said destiny cannot be changed; destiny can only be delayed. Human activities are pushing the earth from an equilibrium to an unstable position. Prevention of pandemics and climate change mitigation and adaptation would only delay the final pandemics and last effects of climate change on earth. From 1346 till date the rate at which epidemics and pandemics occur is becoming faster in a way that may be predicted. Epidemics and pandemics alone could wipe out a greater part of humanity within a short period of about four years.
After the Black Death in 1346-1353 in Asia and Europe (half of Europe died), 192 years after, the Cocoliztli epidemic (1545-1548) killed about 15 million people. Then the American Plague occurred in the 16th century and 90% of indigenous people in the northern hemisphere were killed. This helped Spanish forces to win the Aztec Ancan Forces. 117 years after, the great plaque of London (1665-1666) killed about 15% of the population of London, 54 years after, the great plague of Marseilles (1720-1723) killed about 30% of the population of Marseilles. 47 years after, the Russian Plague (1770-1772) killed thousands, 21years after, Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic (1793) killed about 5000. 96 years after the flu pandemic (1889-1890) killed about 1 million.
26 years after American Polio epidemic(1916) killed about 6000, 2 years after, Spanish flu (1918-1920) killed about 100 million, 37 years after , Asian flu Pandemic(1957- 1958) killed about 1 million, 23 years after , AIDS pandemic(1981) has already killed about 35 millions, 28 years after H1N1 Swine pandemic (2009-2010) killed about 157000, 4 years after, West African Ebola epidemic(2014-2016) killed about 11000, it's just a year the Zika virus epidemic(2015) and COVID-19 is claiming thousands of lives.
In spite of continual removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, scientists say that there would be an increase in sea ice and in permafrost thawing, in heat waves, and heavy precipitation and decrease water resources in semi-arid regions.
One could conclude that climate change and pandemics can massacre humanity within about 3.5 years. The precise time and date are not known. These shall affect every part of the globe. This would be accompanied with famine and also rendering portable water undrinkable to many people. At one moment natural disasters and pandemics would intensify killing thousands and millions at other moments. Unfortunately, this is inevitable, but protection maybe a personal issue. Moral education could help.
This could lead to war, famine, disease and wild animals killing people. Sea creatures would also die from severe climate and destroying ships and planes.
NGOs and Scientists should be funded to mitigate or help humanity adapt to the most recent pandemic COVID-19, providing to communities' facial masks, water, liquid soap
and medications like chloroquine to end the disease. PPE should be provided to medical officers.
Motivated by the theme of the 2020 High-Level Segment, the Antonio Meneghetti Scientific and Humanist Research Foundation organized in Lizori, Italy, an international course entitled “I Am Able to Do, craftsmanship through cultural diversity education” to promote capacity-building initiatives connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievements, among young people.
This course was organized around the need to ensure that younger generations be aware of the benefits of the implementation of SDG’s through cooperation, to sustain and accelerate action for delivering them. It was implemented in three modules in 2019 with a sample of 35 participants (young people, 16 to 25 years old) coming from Latvia, Lithuania and Italy. This project aims to train the young to be the “artisan of the future”, focusing on capacity-building to bridging civilizations in the name of unity and universality.
More specifically, one of the goals is to enhance the consciousness of the cultural and socio-economic identity of their countries in the young, as well as the interconnections with the identities of other participating countries, to promote capacity-building. The project contributes to the improvement of the quality of youth work, to the re-launching of artisan professions and to raising awareness about values such as ethics of work to prevent racism and intolerance.
The course took place in Lizori, a restored medieval village, which constitutes a new model for environmental education, aiming to harmonize urbanization and innovation together with civilized human development. This ecobiological place has become a worldwide model, through education and training projects based on the ontopsychological pedagogy that foster interdisciplinary, life-long learning and multicultural education, in order to train people in social functions. Lizori represents the importance of promoting a new pedagogy, founded on the specific identity of the individual and of different populations. At the basis of the course “I Am Able to Do”
we find values, existential needs of youth, sharing experiences that are not confined to one single culture or territory, but universal and applicable anywhere. This illustrates how the multicultural training of the youth is crucial to promote sustainable development and contribute to achieving the SDGs for the next decades.
The results were presented by the young participants themselves, during the session
“Business support for young people in contemporary society” at the III International Economic Forum held in Riga, Latvia on 31 October and 1 November 2019, organized with the Institute of Economics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and supported by State research program project INTERFRAME-LV, Latvian and Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Forum was attended by 170 participants from 22 countries, including ambassadors from 12 countries: Estonia, Ireland, Sweden, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia, China, Canada, USA, Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
Uzbekistan. 56 speakers from 10 countries. There was an opportunity to watch the Forum progress online during the live stream.
Recommendations
Promote educational initiatives related to the Sustainable Development Goals and their implementation involving young people.
Encourage multicultural experiences among young’s in order to prevent racism, intolerance and prejudice.
Support social responsibility in education.