Nawal Noor

The African Women’s Health Center is located at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital which is a Harvard Affiliated Hospital. The overall mission of the AWHC is to holistically improve the health of refugee women who have undergone female genital cutting. It provides access, understanding and community to refugee women who have long-term complications from this tradition and who seek access to improved reproductive health care.

Nawal Nour, founder, African Women’s Health Center Nawal Nour, founder of the nation’s first clinic for female African immigrants who have been genitally circumcised, discusses her efforts to help these women. «