{"id":247245,"date":"2026-10-15T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-how-egyptian-femtech-is-tackling-taboos-around-womens-health\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:30:20","slug":"egypt-how-egyptian-femtech-is-tackling-taboos-around-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-how-egyptian-femtech-is-tackling-taboos-around-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: How Egyptian Femtech Is Tackling Taboos Around Women&#8217;s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em> Cairo &#8211; Cultural taboos and a lack of understanding can be a barrier for women to access healthcare in Egypt, alongside the cost of treatment. But the country&#8217;s budding femtech sector is creating new pathways to help and inform. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enow.gov.eg\/en\/report\/09.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by the independent Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) found that only 20 percent of Egyptian women are covered by medical insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Aside from emergency services and some essential medicines, including childhood vaccines, health services&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Cultural taboos and a lack of understanding can be a barrier for women to access healthcare in Egypt, alongside the cost of treatment. But the country&#8217;s budding femtech sector is creating new pathways to help and inform. A 2019 study by the independent Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) found that only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,6639,55648,5731,257,254,45749,6210,6460],"class_list":["post-247245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-femtech","tag-health","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taboos","tag-tackling","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}