El professor Philippe Descamps, FIGO’s former Vice-Chair, was Vice-Chair of the FIGO Congress 2023 Organising Committee. He discusses the impact of endometriosis and shares key insights on how to improve diagnosis and treatment of this disease.  

What are they key facts and figures on endometriosis? 

Endometriosis is a condition that affects between 5% and 10% of women of reproductive age, causing pain that is often very debilitating – including pain during menstruation, intercourse and defecation – and in some cases even infertility.  

Dr Jonathan Berek, Past Chair of the Committee on Women's Cancer, and Dr Joanna Cain, former associate Committee member, share their views on where we are and what comes next in our journey to end cervical cancer.  

Professor Bo Jacobsson, FIGO Division Director of Maternal and Neonatal Health 2021-2025, was the Maternal and Newborn Health Theme Leader of the FIGO World Congress Scientific Programme Committee. He discusses strategies to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality worldwide, and the importance of tackling preterm birth. 

Dr Laura Gil, Chair of FIGO Committee on Safe Abortion, was one of our keynote speakers at the FIGO World Congress 2023. She talks to us about the urgency to improve access to safe abortion globally and her deep commitment to end the preventable pandemic of unsafe abortions.  

Alongside other healthcare organisations, FIGO worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Special Programme of Research in Human Reproduction (HRP) to introduce a groundbreaking abortion care app.

FIGO celebrates World Contraception Day 2023 announcing the winners of the Contraception Reimagined Challenge 

Led by FIGO's Committee on Contraception, the Contraception Reimagined Challenge invited visionary minds from FIGO's membership societies to reimagine the language used in conversations about contraception.  

After careful consideration of all the submissions received, the selection committee are delighted to announce that the winning entries are:  

On 28 September, we join forces with activists and partner organisations worldwide to mark International Safe Abortion Day. The theme for this year is Unstoppable Movement: Movement building, solidarity, and justice for the right to safe abortion 

The fourth episode of the FIGO Podcast unpacks the Cartagena Declaration, which asserts that access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is a basic and non-negotiable human right of every woman and girl in the world. 

Earlier this year, FIGO and the Chien-Tien Hsu Research Foundation partnered together to enable two young health professionals who are beginning their career in gynaecologic oncology to attend the FIGO World Congress 2023 and visit a gynaecologic oncology centre in Paris to gain clinical and research experience.