2025 Prevention Report

Did the number of initiatives carried out in 2025 increase again?
Thierry Drilhon: The Bus visited 16 cities in 2025, where it stayed for three days to provide comprehensive cardiovascular and gynecological screenings to nearly 4,500 women—an average of nearly 300 women per stop. 46 Women’s Heart Days enabled screenings for nearly 3,000 women, or about 60 per event. Six Corporate Heart Days were organized in 2025, serving nearly 350 female employees.

What is your goal?
TD: It is unacceptable today that our wives, daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues… die from a cardiovascular disease that could have been prevented. A woman dies from a cardiovascular disease every 7 minutes in France. And yet, the onset of cardiovascular disease is preventable in 8 out of 10 cases through a healthy lifestyle, screening for risk factors at key stages of hormonal life, and regular medical check-ups. This requires on-the-ground prevention that is active and educational, caring, and non-judgmental.
CMV: At each stop of the Bus or during each event, women come without realizing they are “at risk” and discover, sometimes for the first time, the importance of taking care of their hearts and arteries. Screening reveals risk factors that are often overlooked or downplayed, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, metabolic disorders, or chronic stress. It allows for action to be taken before suffering the consequences, before a cardiovascular event occurs.

Do you involve several thousand healthcare professionals in your project?
CMV: Every stop on the Bus’s route and every Women’s Heart Day is made possible thanks to the exceptional mobilization of local healthcare professionals: general practitioners, cardiologists, nephrologists, gynecologists, vascular specialists, midwives, nurses, pharmacists… Nearly 5,000 of them have already volunteered their time and expertise to screen, refer, and raise awareness. These events allow them to work together on the specific aspects of cardiovascular disease in women and contribute to their continuing education.
TD: When the Bus moves on, greater expertise remains in the community. By getting out into the field and working hand in hand with local stakeholders and communities, we make prevention a concrete, effective, measurable, and sustainable reality. By involving the entire local healthcare ecosystem, the Bus and the Days provide effective screening as close as possible to the communities.

Do you want to develop a true culture of prevention?
CMV: Beyond health, prevention is a societal issue: it must become a collective reflex, just like education or safety. Developing prevention means doing much more than saving lives; it strengthens social cohesion, health equity, and our society’s ability to care for those who keep it alive. Prevention must go beyond simple communication campaigns by being concrete and easy to implement, so that those who need it can be placed on a structured care pathway.
TD: Every member of society has a role to play: the general public by taking the time to learn about risk factors, healthcare professionals by training in the specifics of cardio-gynecology, local communities by implementing initiatives that benefit as many people as possible, public authorities by moving away from the “all-curative” model, and companies by making the health and well-being of their female employees one of the drivers of their growth.

For you, is prevention above all a collective commitment?
TD: The Bus du Coeur des Femmes combines strong city involvement, the expertise of local healthcare professionals, the nonprofit ecosystem, and the solidarity of our funding partners. We are also demonstrating that the business world now has a role to play in preventive healthcare.
CMV: Only collective action that mobilizes local stakeholders can be truly effective in the long run. Local roots are essential. It’s not enough to spend just three days a year in a city… We’re helping to build a multidisciplinary, transgenerational network of talent dedicated to women’s health, to save lives every day. It continues to exist even after the Bus has left.

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