Since 1966 Serving Women
Host of the MWIA International Congress 2025
EMWA PROFILE
The Egyptian Medical Women’s Association (EMWA) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that has been serving the Egyptian Community through the medical women workforce since decades. EMWA was founded in 1966 and has been registered in the Ministry of Social Solidarity under the number (82).
The first president of EMWA was Prof. Zahira H. Abdin who was born in June 1917, and was named the mother of Egyptian Doctors by the Egyptian Medical Syndicate in the early nineties. Prof. Zahira H. Abdin was followed by other fellow medical leaders and currently the head of the EMWA is Prof. Omaima M. Abou Shady, Professor of Parasitology at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.
EMWA is a unique organization; membership is for accomplished medical women from diverse medical specialties, but the services of this old and prestigious NGO are for everyone, with special focus on vulnerable groups like mothers, children, young girls, elderly and patients of stigmatizing diseases.
EMWA is a full member at the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) which was established in 1919 and represented in the advisory board of the World Health Organization. EMWA is the only member of the MWIA in the Middle East and North Africa. Additionally, EMWA is an affiliated member of the African Women’s Association and the National Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations.
EMWA is a member in the National Council for Women (NCW), the national Coalition to combat Marriage of Underage Girls, National Federation of Health Promotion in Egypt, National Coalition to combat Violence against Women. Furthermore, EMWA is a member of the Board of Trustees in the Egyptian Network of NGOs against AIDS (ENNAA).
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EMWA worked on several projects on family planning, FGM, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, women’s health promotion, the health profile of the female child, adolescents’ health, perinatal care, neonatal care, prevention and control of infections affecting maternal and new born health, environmental health and others.
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