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The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (IJGO) has published a new open access supplement on the FIGO initiative on the impact of pregnancy on long-term health. The supplement was written with the leadership of the FIGO Committee on the Impact of Pregnancy on Long-term Health and published in January 2023. 

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New IJGO Supplement: FIGO initiative on impact of pregnancy on long-term health

In October 2021, the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (IJGO) published a highly exciting and urgent special issue, titled: A Call for Action in Indigenous and First Nations Women’s Health and Wellbeing.

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IJGO publishes A Call for Action in Indigenous and First Nations Women’s Health and Wellbeing

The winning paper – Diagnostic accuracy of self-collected vaginal samples for HPV DNA detection in women from South India – was written by Santhosh Kuriakose, Sasidharanpillai Sabeena, Damodaran Binesh, Jazeel Abdulmajeed, Nagaraja Ravishankar, Amrutha Ramachandran, Bindu Vijaykumar, and Nurul Ameen and published in the IJGO in May 2020. The award brings with it a stipend of £800, a certificate of recognition and one-year complimentary access to the online version of IJGO.

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Winner of the John J Sciarra IJGO Prize Paper Award for 2020

Details about the Fellowship

The International Fellowship Program offers a one-week intensive experience at an Australian hospital for early-career OBGYN specialists from countries of the Asia-Pacific region.

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RANZCOG International Fellowship Program for Asia- Pacific OBGYN Specialists – New Countries Added, Check your Eligibility Now!

“She’s a girl, which means that, despite her inherent human rights, her body, her life and her future are not her own. We live in a world where so many dimensions of power and choice are still determined by gender. Most women and girls face some, if not many, discriminatory barriers to equality. Among the many causes and consequences of gender discrimination, harmful practices rank as some of the most insidious.” UNFPA State of the World Population Report (SWOP) 2020

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Defying harmful practices

We are proud to be in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), and to collaborate with them throughout many areas of their work.

FIGO is therefore disappointed to learn that US President Donald Trump has decided to halt funding to the WHO amid the global COVID19 pandemic.

Last night FIGO Secretary General, Professor Dame Lesley Regan, was interviewed by the BBC, highlighting:

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FIGO Comments on US halt to WHO funding

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is a new pathogen of high contagious abilities.

Although males seem to be more affected than females, as yet very little is known about the effect of COVID-19 on pregnant women and infants.

Based on the only set of available COVID-19 data, being a small series of women from Wuhan, China, there is no evidence that pregnant women are more at risk than the general population and there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted to the baby during pregnancy.

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Statement

This month FIGO has spoken with Dr Jaideep Malhotra, Past President of FOGSI and Member of FIGO Committee on Reproductive Medicine, Endocrinology and Infertility.

"It was a dream for me to become a doctor and to serve the women of India.

I feel very blessed because the education system in our country, especially the higher education in the medical colleges, is very affordable and as far as training is concerned we have plenty of opportunity to learn as the patient load in the hospitals is too high for doctors to handle.

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Serving women in India