What a success!

The GCC Menopause Summit 2025 was not built around trends, buzzwords, or surface-level awareness. It was intentionally designed to address the realities women in the GCC face, without dilution or discomfort.
 

• This Summit did not separate science from lived experience.
  Medical expertise sat alongside real stories, ensuring conversations were clinically sound, culturally relevant, and grounded in daily life.
   

• It refused to simplify menopause into a single narrative.
  The programme acknowledged that menopause is not one experience, one symptom set, or one solution. Topics moved fluidly between physical health, mental wellbeing, intimacy, work, family life, and long-term health, reflecting the complexity women actually live with.
   

• It made space for conversations that are usually avoided.
  Vaginal health, intimacy, cognitive change, cancer, workplace challenges, and hormonal care were addressed openly and respectfully, without embarrassment, minimisation, or sensationalism.
   

• It welcomed men into the conversation without centring them.
  Men attended, listened, and engaged. The focus remained on women’s experiences, while recognising that shared understanding strengthens families, workplaces, and communities.
   

• It prioritised cultural context over imported messaging.
  This was not a global menopause narrative dropped into the region. It was shaped specifically for life in the GCC, with speakers and discussions that understood local values, expectations, and lived realities.
   

• It focused on clarity, not overwhelm.
  Attendees left with insight they could use, language they could trust, and confidence to continue conversations beyond the room.
   

This was not an event designed to tick boxes or create noise. It was designed to move understanding forward.

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