« Making women’s health a priority everywhere “. This will have been the common thread of the work of the 24th edition of the World Congress of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) held from October 9 to 12, 2023 in Paris. For four days, nearly 8,000 delegates from the four corners of the world and 500 experts focused on the problems that undermine women’s health and the challenges that await this field of medicine. Among them, the Dr Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 who owes his fame to the fight that the Congolese doctor led to restore the women victims of war in his country DR Congo. On the menu, endometriosis, obstetric emergencies, health of newborns, but also vaccination against cervical cancer, and safer access to abortion throughout the world.
On the occasion, Dr. Mukwege, baptized “ the man who repairs women », renewed its call for a less feminicidal world, in which the weaker sex must cease to be a target for the belligerents of wars of which they are not a party. “ We call for bold and new thinking to finally end the completely unacceptable use of sexual violence as a weapon of war “, he said. With the certainty that the message will get through and will be able to reach as many people as possible, as the platform was suitable for this.
The Congress saw Cameroon playing a role among the first. A session of work was chaired by the Dr Ernestine Gwet-Bell, and devoted to the health of migrant women, other targets sometimes ignored in questions of reproductive and maternal health. The eradication of cervical cancer interested the participants. The objective set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for 2030 was at the heart of numerous sessions of the FIGO congress, including the one devoted to the presentation of the results of the study Shut upcarried out in western Cameroon, focusing on fertility and pregnancy outcomes, after thermal ablation of precancerous lesions of the cervix.
For almost 70 years, the various FIGO World Congresses have brought together obstetricians, gynecologists, midwives, nurses, paramedical doctors and other health professionals in the field of women’s health from around the world.
Paris 2023 was the very first hybrid FIGO world congress. Especially since it was co-organized by FIGO and the National College of French Gynecologists and Obstetricians (Cngof). Delegates from across Europe and around the world came together physically and virtually, to celebrate science and combine their efforts to highlight science, and find ways to improve the practice of medicine against the problems gynecological.
