2023-06-30 18:47:26
In France, nearly 3,000 women develop cervical cancer even though screening and vaccination are accessible and paid for. Getty Images
DECRYPTION – Improving women’s health depends on improving their rights, and vice versa.
“Most often women don’t die of incurable diseases. They die because societies have not decided that their lives are worth saving.”underlined Prof. Mahmoud Fathalla (Egypt), President of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Figo) from 1994 to 1997.
Improving women’s health depends on improving their rights, and vice versa. It requires a general mobilization on this double front which brings together health professionals, institutions, politicians and non-governmental organizations. The objective is to remove the economic, ideological or cultural obstacles to the implementation of actions that could change the lives of women.
Founded in 1954, Figo federates 135 learned societies of gynecology and obstetrics from all continents whose objective is to improve the status of women, young girls and families, to enable them to fully realize their educational potential, sexual and reproductive, in accordance with their…
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