The National Vulvodynia Association (NVA) is a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to improve the lives of individuals affected by vulvodynia, a spectrum of chronic vulvar pain disorders. In accomplishing this goal, the NVA will: educate affected women about vulvodynia to enable them to make informed choices about their treatment, encourage patients to develop self-help strategies to deal with the physical and emotional components of this disorder, provide a support network for interested members, involve and educate loved ones to promote a more supportive family environment, coordinate a centralized source of information on suspected causes, current treatments, and ongoing research for health care practitioners and patients, emphasize a coordinated interdisciplinary approach to patients' medical care, work cooperatively with other health organizations to improve our understanding of vulvodynia's relationship to other disorders, educate the public to bring attention to vulvodynia as a serious women's health concern, and encourage further research to find more effective treatments and eventual cures for vulvodynia.

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