ECHO: Health cuts hurting women's health

ECHO (Improving Women’s Health in Ontario) wrote in their newsletter in May:

“On April 25, the Federal Government announced substantial cuts to the federal budget, including the devastating elimination of the $2.9 million Women’s Health Contribution Program  [3](WHCP). For over fifteen years the WHCP has supported evidence-based policy research via the Canadian Women’s Health Network; Women and Health Care Reform; Le Réseau québécois d’action pour la santé des femmes; and four Centres of Excellence (BC, Prairie, Atlantic, and National Network on Environments - aka NNEWH – which investigated the regulation of toxins).  Until recently, it also supported the Women and Health Protection  [4]working group – cut in 2010 - which produced important work on pharmaceuticals as well as HPV screening.”

Read the whole article [5].