Why Arab Women Must Lead the Next Wave of Health Innovation

From menstrual health to menopause, fertility to chronic illness, Arab women face critical and complex health needs, yet our presence in the innovation space remains minimal. While women’s health receives less than 3% of global venture funding, in the Arab world, that number approaches zero.
This isn’t just due to funding gaps or policy barriers, it’s because we, as a community, have not yet built the platforms, networks, and spaces to support women-led health innovation.
Without a dedicated hub for collaboration, mentorship, and visibility, our ideas remain isolated, and our impact limited. Femmena exists to change that.

It’s time to change that.

Arab women are not just users of health technology, we are researchers, founders, engineers, and patients. We understand our communities’ needs better than anyone else. Whether it's creating discreet period care solutions, digital mental health tools that speak our language, or culturally competent fertility apps, the next generation of FemTech must be designed by us, for us.

By launching femMENA, we’re not waiting for permission. We’re building a platform where women across the region, from Doha to Baghdad, Amman to Muscat, can share ideas, access resources, and co-create the future of health.

This is more than a tech revolution, it’s a social one.