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Activities:

• Developing policy recommendations regarding women's health services that can be used during the interim phase, focusing on the integration of women's health needs into national level policy formulation.

• Lobbying with the Palestinian women's movement, non-governmental organizations and the Palestinian National Authority for the adoption of the Coalition's policy recommendations by the three sectors involved in the delivery of health care in the country.

• Developing a pilot curriculum on the management of menopausal women, to be used to upgrade and train physicians and nurses working at the primary health care level.

• Assisting selected health institutions in implementing menopausal care programmes through training, monitoring, on going support and evaluation assistance.

• Developing a pilot curriculum on adolescent (teenaged) women's health.

• Forging initial links with women and health activists in the Arab world and internationally, with the aim of exchanging experiences, training and research schemes, all focusing on the promotion of the notion of women's health as being more than just maternal and child health.

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