Nurturing Women’s Health Beyond Maternity 

Women’s health is often narrowly framed around fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth. This leaves large parts of women’s adult lives under-recognised within health systems, even as women continue to experience significant health, social, and economic transitions. Concerns beyond maternity are frequently normalised, fragmented across services, or addressed late, resulting in avoidable suffering and loss of wellbeing.

In India, nearly 3 out of 4 women are outside routine contact with the health system once they are not pregnant. (NFHS-5)

Majhdhaar responds to this gap by focusing on women’s health beyond maternity. It is grounded in the goals of SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and addresses the ageism and invisibility that shape how women’s health needs are understood and acted upon. The initiative works to strengthen how health systems, communities, and knowledge ecosystems respond to women across adult life.

What Majhdhaar Does 

Majhdhaar brings together community engagement, provider capacity, evidence generation, appropriate technologies, collaboration, and narrative change to improve recognition, access, and continuity of care for women beyond maternity. Our approach includes Community Engagement, Capacity Building, Knowledge Generation and Translation, Appropriate Health Technology, Collaboration and Communities of Practice, and Narrative Building.