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279<div class="hers-about-title">About&nbsp;HERS</div>
280<div class="hers-about-content">The <strong>HERS</strong> Foundation is an independent, international 501c3 nonprofit organization. <strong>HERS</strong> is dedicated to making sure that every woman, regardless of her financial status, has the information she needs to make a fully informed decision about what she will, and will not, allow to be done to her female organs.</div>
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317Rectocele repair</a></li><li><a class="foobox" href="/treatments/uterine-artery-embolization/" target="foobox" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uterine Artery Embolization</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="/treatments/uterine-artery-embolization/report/">Report Complications of Uterine Artery Embolization</a></li><li><a class="foobox" href="/symptoms-and-conditions/prolapse-of-the-uterus-bladder-bowel-or-rectum/" target="foobox" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uterine Prolapse &amp; Resuspension</a></li></ul>
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