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For the first time, a course is asking health workers, most of them women working in African communities, to put menopause into words. And what they shared is not what any textbook would have predicted. Read the full article: https://redasadki.me/2026/06/28/menopause-what-health-workers-already-know-in-their-own-words/ Menopause is missing from most medical training, from health systems, from the conversation. No screening. No vocabulary. No budget. So we asked one question: what word comes to mind when you hear the word menopause? A medical social worker answered. “Silence. Also disgust.” A public health worker named the word his own language uses, and the shame it carries. A nephrologist in Italy saw spring, green fields and colorful flowers. A community health board member in Costa Rica, going through it herself at a young age, held onto the same phrase: the second spring. Then came the stories. A menopause coach who waited five years for a doctor who would listen, after being told she could on