WHEN stands for Women’s Health Empowerment Network. The WHEN vision sparked in 2014 to address shortfalls in the global pelvic organ prolapse space, little awareness, limited screening, and insufficient curriculum provided to diagnostic practitioners providing pelvic exams.
APOPS’ global community — patients within 184 countries, practitioners, researchers, academics, industry leaders, and policymakers — coming together to eradicate silo walls and advance POP awareness, screening, practice, and policy. Since its founding in 2010, APOPS has coglaborated across all sectors to establish projects and programs to better serve women worldwide.
Launched in 2025, the WHEN Coalition expands this mission by uniting sectors in diverse below-the-waist women’s health conditions to shine a light on multiple shrouded, stigmatized women’s health conditions to eradicate stigma and amplify women’s health empowerment.
WHEN is dedicated to creating practical, real-world solutions for women experiencing pelvic, vaginal, and intimate health issues—including prolapse, urinary, digestive, reproductive, or vulval conditions. Women deserve hope and effective care pathways. With support from WHEN partners and advocates, women’s below-the-waist health will finally take its rightful place in healthcare.
Over the years, the WHEN vision has driven initiatives such as POP Awareness Month (2014), the Nepal uterine prolapse project (2014), the StigmaStride Walkathon (2016), and the Women’s Pelvic Health Congress (2016).
