Expanding reproductive choice in women's sports

拓展女性体育领域的生育选择权

Health Check

2026-09-17

26 分钟
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The Spanish Football Association has announced a new programme that will make fertility treatments such as IVF and egg freezing available to female players and referees, but what difference will it make and how does this move compare to support offered for professional sportswomen globally? Margie Davenport, Professor in Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation at the University of Alberta and retired Team Canada synchronized swimmer explains. Three kinds of heart attacks that primarily affect women have been redesignated 'primary' attacks in an effort to improve diagnosis and treatment in an area of medicine where women have historically been 'deprioritised'. BBC health reporter Philippa Roxby explains the changes. In rural Rwanda dust is hard to escape - it’s on the roads, in the fields, and for those living in homes with bare-earth floors, it’s dusty inside too. This has serious effects on air quality in the home, especially for children who are playing or crawling on the ground. Our reporter Ahishakiye Jean d’Amour is in Bugesera district in the east of Rwanda to find out about an organisation called Earth Enable who have developed a safer flooring at an affordable price. Also, the latest on the global rollout of the RSV vaccine. Plus, eye drops to help you see better at night. Image: Spain's players pose for a team photo before the FIFA Women's World Cup Europe Zone Qualifiers, group C, football match between Spain and England at Mallorca Son Moix Stadium in Palma de Mallorca, on June 5, 2026. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP via Getty Images) Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producers: Hannah Robins and Georgia Christie
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  • Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond.

  • As the Spanish Football Association makes egg freezing and IVF available to female players

  • and referees, we ask how this will affect the decisions they make about starting families.

  • That's in a moment.

  • And in the studio with me today I have BBC health reporter Philippa Roxby.

  • Is it busy in the world of health in the newsroom at the moment?