We’re delighted to announce the publication of our new ‘Fibroids and COVID-19’ infographic.

COVID-19 has created a lot of anxiety, especially for people with pre-existing health conditions. Whilst there has been a lot of information published on the impact of COVID-19 on people with various health conditions, we noticed an information gap with regards to fibroids and therefore we sought to address this.

Working with Mariana Ndrio, a second-year medical student at the UMHS in St Kitts and Nevis, we did some desk-based research to understand the possible impact of COVID-19 on women with fibroids and, based on this, provide some practical tips to help women manage during this pandemic, which experts have warned is likely to last for another 12-18 months.

Whilst carrying out her research to prepare this infographic, Mariana faced one major challenge:

  “As a medical student that remains generally impressed by the increasing amount of existing medical and scientific knowledge, researching gynaecological diseases such as fibroids have led me to a stark realization: that despite the high prevalence of uterine fibroids among women, not enough high-quality data is available to formulate evidence-based guidelines that address patients’ needs adequately.”

Mariana very clearly describes what we hear from women all the time when it comes to fibroids – the lack of accurate, reliable information. We have been slowly trying to address this issue by creating a set of information resources which we are improving and expanding to ensure women have the best information possible.

You can download our new fibroids infographic below and we created a list of the references we used to assist us in preparing the content for the infographic (you can find this below too). Additionally, this resource has been reviewed by Dr Oduntan, one of the District Medical Officers here in St Kitts and Nevis.

Coming soon will be a couple more infographics which will focus on various aspects of fibroids.

If you have any questions or comments about this new infographic, please do leave them in the comments section below, or if you have fibroids and would like to share the experience you’ve had during this pandemic maybe by writing an article about your experience, then please do send us an email and we’d be happy to work with you on this.

For some additional information on this topic, you can read Mariana’s recent blog post, ‘Fibroids and COVID-19: Tips of Self-Care and Managing Stress’.

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We are committed to making all our resources free and easily accessible to all those who need it. You can help us with this commitment by making a donation which will go towards the costs of producing our health information which includes the costs of design, printing and editing. You can make a donation here. Thank you for any help that you can provide. Please note that our online payments are managed by JAD Cash,  a comprehensive e-money solution for the Eastern Caribbean countries. All online payments will, therefore, be processed in Eastern Caribbean Dollars (XCD)