HRT shortages, Asylum-seeking women and destitution, Long-term relationships
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Last week we discussed the shortages of menopause treatment drug HRT, which began in late 2018. This week, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have said they are ‘very concerned’ about women buying HRT products from unregulated online sites. Some sites were found to be selling products at four times the NHS price. Dr Sarah Jarvis, clinical director of patientacess.com, offers advice to HRT users in light of the shortages.
Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson are the duo behind the comedy podcast, Dirty Mother Pukka They have a new book out, Where’s My Happy Ending? where they discuss the trials, tribulations & rewards of relationships and family life.
A new report published by the charity Women for Refugee Women claims that women who have fled rape and other sexual violence in their country of origin are being made vulnerable to further abuse in the UK because of government policy which makes them destitute. The report contains the stories of over 100 asylum seeking women. We hear from one of them and Jane speaks to human rights activist, Natasha Walter, founder of Women for Refugee Women.
Friendship can be one of the most powerful and important aspects of any woman’s life. We explore what sisterhood means to different women at different points in their lives. Kenyera Boothe and Rachel Musekiwa are 19 and are best friends. They both grew up in foster care.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Dr Sarah Jarvis Interviewed guest: Ana Whitehouse Interviewed guest: Matt Farquharson Interviewed guest: Natasha Walter Interviewed guest: Kenyera Boothe Interviewed guest: Rachel Musekiwa Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.9 | This is the Woman's Our Podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | Today on the programme we're going to talk about a book that is fantastically unsmug about |
| 0:13.3 | marriage and our White House and Matt Farkerson have put together a book called Where's My |
| 0:18.5 | Happy Ending. |
| 0:19.5 | And it's particularly useful if you're in the early tough young child rearing years of |
| 0:25.5 | marriage. |
| 0:26.5 | I guess on the programme today and we begin a three-part series celebrating friendship. |
| 0:31.6 | Today we'll meet two young women who forged a very, very close link. |
| 0:36.2 | They are both basically young women with the experience of foster care and it's made |
| 0:41.0 | their friendship really important. |
| 0:43.1 | So they are on the programme today as well. |
| 0:45.0 | First of all, we are going to discuss HRT again, there'll be some size of, oh, why are |
| 0:51.0 | you doing that again? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, we are doing it because it's back in the newspapers again. |
| 0:54.9 | A lot of talk about HRT. |
| 0:57.0 | We know there is a shortage of some sorts of hormone replacement therapy and women are |
| 1:02.0 | travelling across the country in some cases. |
| 1:04.3 | They are ordering it online. |
| 1:06.7 | The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have said they are concerned about women |
| 1:11.0 | buying HRT from unregulated online sites. |
| 1:16.2 | Some sites were found to be selling products at four times the NHS price. |
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