The Female Health Company : 01.04.2012 - FHCO to Present at Sidoti's Semi-annual New York Micro-Cap Conference

For Immediate Release

Contacts:	William R. Gargiulo, Jr.	231.526.1244
	Donna Felch, CFO	312.595.9123

The Female Health Company to Present at Sidoti's Semi-annual New York Micro-Cap Conference

CHICAGO, January 4, 2012 - The Female Health Company (NASDAQ-CM: FHCO - News), which manufactures and markets the FC2 Female Condom®, today announced that O.B. Parrish, CEO, and Donna Felch, CFO, are scheduled to make a presentation at the Sidoti Semi-annual New York Micro-Cap Conference at 2 PM Eastern Time on Monday, January 9, 2012, in the Estate 2

Edison room. The Company's executives will also meet with investors to discuss the Company's ongoing operations. The conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

About Sidoti & Company, LLC

Sidoti & Company, LLC, founded in 1999, continues to set the Wall Street standard for independent small-cap equity research, while rapidly becoming a driving force in micro-cap research, launching coverage of more than 100 equities of $200 million market cap or less since inception in mid-2010. Its analysts mine dozens of industries to provide unbiased, institutional- quality research focusing on the investment merits of profitable companies at a sub-$3 billion market cap, and it anticipates extending coverage to 700 small-cap equities by the end of 2012.

About The Female Health Company

The Female Health Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, manufactures and markets the FC2

Female Condom® (FC2), which is available in the U.S. and in about 120 other countries globally. The Company owns certain worldwide rights to the FC2 Female Condom®, including patents that

have been issued in the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan, The People's Republic of China, Spain, Mexico, Greece, Turkey and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), which includes Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United
Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. FC2 patent applications are pending in various
countries. The FC2 Female Condom® is the only available FDA-approved product controlled by a woman that offers dual protection against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS,
and unintended pregnancy. The World Health Organization (WHO) has cleared FC2 for
purchase by U.N. agencies.

"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

The statements in this release which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements based upon the Company's current plans and strategies, and reflect the Company's current assessment of the risks and uncertainties related to its business, including such things as product demand and market acceptance; the economic and business environment and the impact of government pressures; currency risks; capacity; efficiency and supply constraints; and other risks detailed in the Company's press releases, shareholder communications and Securities and Exchange

Commission filings. Actual events affecting the Company and the impact of such events on the

Company's operations may vary from this currently anticipated.

For more information about the Female Health Company visit the Company's website at http://www.femalehealth.comand http://www.femalecondom.org. If you would like to be added to the Company's e-mail alert list, please send an e-mail to [e-mail].