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The Committee on Menstrual Disorders and Related Health Impacts focuses on the set of symptoms described as non-gestational abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), including heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB).
The main purpose of the Committee on Climate Change and Toxic Environmental Exposures (C2TE2) is to advance a global strategy to address exposures to harmful environmental toxins and effects of ...
The Committee on Preterm Birth is a diverse and experienced group with global representation and extensive clinical and research experience to tackle the solutions to the adverse consequences of ...
Anaemia is an under-recognised and undertreated chronic state that adversely impacts more than 2 billion people worldwide, predominantly women, the fetus and children. 1 Iron deficiency is the most ...
This document complements FIGO’s Statement – Childbirth: A Bill of Rights – by providing an ethical framework for respectful maternity care during pregnancy and childbirth. Together with the bill of ...
In October 2021, the FIGO Women’s Cancer Committee established the Endometrial Cancer Staging subcommittee to review new and established findings on endometrial cancer treatment, prognosis, and ...
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Prof Suvarna Khadilkar and Prof Edgar Mocanu as new Editors-in-Chief for the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (IJGO). They will join ...
FIGO Maternal and Newborn Health Division has published comprehensive guidance for managing both pre-existing and pregnancy-specific liver conditions in the International Journal of Gynecology & ...
This document complements FIGO’s Statement – Childbirth: A Bill of Rights – and highlights the need for global health system strengthening efforts and the importance of respectful care. Together with ...
Background Professionally responsible decision making with patients is based primarily on the ethical principles of beneficence and respect for autonomy. The physician has the beneficence-based ...
This FIGO Statement sets out a bill of rights for childbirth. It has been produced by obstetrics and gynaecology professional membership organisations, led by FIGO, the Royal College of Obstetricians ...
The environmental contributors to reproductive health begin in utero and include the social, physical, and nutritional environment, and physical and chemical agents. Exposure to toxic environmental ...