Vulval Health Awareness Month
VHAM 2006
The most successful awareness month since the start of the Campaign.
Vulval health awareness and the importance of vulval self-examination was given a boost during March 2006.
Fabia Brackenbury and Dr David Nunns were interviewed by BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour.
The BBC website launched Fabia's story about living with lichen sclerosus and her fight to maintain a sex life over a ten year period, since diagnosis. The BBC later revealed that during the first 24 hours of the publication of her story the web page received 44,000 hits!
Good Housekeeping magazine promised to write an item on self-examination and this duly appeared in the July edition.
As the result of the interview on Woman's Hour, a woman telephoned the National Vulva Helpline to say that she had been experiencing a lot of pain and itching. She had not been able to get help from her GP or a clinic she had been attending. She had given up hope. Sleepless nights and discomfort meant that she no longer felt she had a quality of life. She was persuaded to ask for an appointment for another consultation at a different clinic where she was immediately diagnosed as having vulval cancer. She feels that the radio programme saved her life. She has kindly given permission to tell her story anonymously.
During March 2006 this site attracted 1017 visitors.
Vulval Health Awareness Campaign
Registered Charity No: 1117613
Telephone Helpline (+44) 07765 947599
The World's first vulval health awareness campaign
