Black and brown women’s health, from first period to beyond menopause

It is not just period pain. It is not just the baby blues. It is not just your age.

Support for Black and brown women at every stage of life, from women who get it.

The need, in five numbers

Nearly 3x
Black women’s risk of dying in or after pregnancy, compared with white women
MBRRACE-UK, 2022 to 2024
8 yrs 10 mths
Average wait for an endometriosis diagnosis in England
Endometriosis UK, 2024
3.9% vs 22.6%
Black African women on HRT, compared with white women
University of Oxford, 2025
1 in 7
Black African babies who carry the sickle cell trait
NHS screening data
29% vs 21%
Black women with a common mental disorder, compared with White British women
Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey

Find your stage

Where are you now?

From your first period: pain, diagnosis, fertility and loss.

Safe, heard pregnancy and birth, and a first year that is held.

Perimenopause, menopause, and the heart.

At every stage

What we do

Trusted, culturally safe health education and support, led by a midwife and by women who have lived it.

Sessions Culturally safe sessions, in person and online, with clinicians who listen.
Resources Plain-English information on every stage, every number with its source.
Advocacy Your rights and the questions to ask, so you are believed the first time.
Training REBIRTH CPD, so clinicians listen sooner and act sooner.
Evidence What women tell us, fed into the NHS and national policy.

Founded and led by midwife Sarah Chitongo

01Heard.
Your voice matters. We help you speak up in every appointment and be taken seriously.
02Whole.
Care for all of you, from first period to beyond menopause: body, mind and heart.
03Well.
Health for life. Trusted information and a community that walks with you.

For professionals