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Preliminary Programme of the Eigth Congress of
FIAPAC
“Reproductive Health and Responsibilities”
and call for abstracts
24/25 October 2008 - Berlin, Germany
Supported by:
Pro Familia, Germany
Thursday, 23 October 2008
15 00 – 18 00 Registration
Friday, 24 October 2008
8 00 Registration
9 00 Welcome
9 30 Plenary Session 1: Society’s Responsibilities for Reproductive Health
- Report from societies with no legal setting for abortion
- Society’s responsibility to provide a legal setting
- Society’s responsibility to provide safe abortion care
- What happens if society opts out?
10 45 Coffee break
11 15 Plenary Session 2: Benefits and risks of abortion
- Physiological and reproductive outcomes
- Outcomes for women based on psychological background
- Consequences of unwanted childbirth: outcomes for women and unwanted children
- Psychological impacts on men
12 30 Lunch
14 00 Workshops
- 1 Induced abortion
- Experiences of health care professionals
- Needs of health care professionals
- Should gynaecologists be obliged to perform abortions?
- Risk management in abortion care
- 2 Immigrant women
- Immigrant women and contraception: Meeting the challenges
- Problems in abortion care for immigrants in Spain
- Exploring attitudes towards abortion: A report of a German study of young immigrants
- Higher abortion rates for immigrant women: what can be done?
- 3 How to change restrictive laws
- Different strategies to legalize abortion: successes and lessons from:
- Portugal
- Mexico
- Columbia
- Switzerland
- Do we need a law at all? Experiences from Canada
- 4 Emergency contraception
- Methods – what’s new?
- Mode of action: no evidence for effect post-fertilization
- Is there a reduction in abortion rates?
- Experiences with over-the-counter access
- Experiences with prescription-only access
15 30 Coffee break
16 00 Plenary Session 3: Second trimester abortion
- Medical methods: advantages and disadvantages
- Surgical methods: advantages and disadvantages
- Overview of current laws in Europe
- Consequences of the laws for women and political challenges in Europe
17 20 FIAPAC General Assembly
20 00 Gala dinner
Saturday, 25 October 2008
9 00 Plenary Session 4: Changing attitudes towards abortion: Endangering women’s health again
- Spain: legal actions against health care professionals
- Netherlands: legal action against a woman
- Italy: Continous political interference by the Vatican
- Eastern Europe: Turning back the wheel?
- Developing a strategic approach to the threat to women’s health
10 30 Coffee break
11 00 Workshops
12 30 Lunch
14 00 Workshops
15 30 Coffee break
16 00 Plenary Session 5: First trimester abortion
- New developments in medical abortion care at 9-13 weeks
- Cervical priming prior to surgical abortion
- Where should medical abortions take place?
- Abortion care over the internet: new options for women
17 30 Final Plenary Session
- Why do we need new contraceptives?
- Why safe abortion and contraception is a necessity for society
- Closing remarks: How to move forward
- Introducing the new President of FIAPAC
18 30 Reception
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Sunday, 26 October 2008
9 30 – 13 00 Post Conference Satellite Symposium
A meeting in German and another meeting in French (both without translation) will be held free of charge for congress participants. A fee of € 20 applies for those who did not register for the FIAPAC conference.
German Session/ Deutschsprachige Sitzung
9 30 Medikamentöser Abbruch im 1. Trimenon/ 1st trimester medical abortion
- Grundlagen des medikamentösen Abbruchs
- Med. Abbruch in Praxen und Kliniken
- Cytotec-Einnahme zuhause?
- Die Nachuntersuchung
- Fragen aus der Praxis
11 00 Kaffepause
11 30 Medikamentöser Abbruch im 2. Trimenon/ 2nd trimester medical abortion
French session/Matinée francophone : partage des expériences sur l’avortement du premier trimestre
9 30 Première partie: Questions sur l'IVG médicamenteuse
- Complications de l’IVG médicamenteuse à la maison
- Quel contôle pour l’IVG médicamenteuse ? ß-hCG ou échographie ?
- Que faire en cas d’absence de visite de contrôle?
11 00 Pause café
11 30Deuxième partie: Questions sur l''avortement chirurgicale
- Quelle anaesthésie: locale, générale ? et dans quels locaux ?
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La dilatation du col:
- systématique ou pas ?
- quel médicament ?
This preliminary program may be subject to change without notice. Please look for the latest version of the program on the website: www.fiapac.org
Free communications in English are welcome.
Please submit an abstract until 1st of July 2008 by e-mail to: fiapac@aon.at
Poster exhibition will be open during the two conference days.
Abstracts for posters in English are welcome until 1st of July 2008 by e-mail to: fiapac@aon.at
Language:
All presentations will be given in English.
Simultaneous translation into French, German and Spanish will be available.
Questions will be translated from these languages into English.
Teaching and information materials:
All participants are invited to bring teaching and information materials such as leaflets, posters and videos used in your country or institution. Please contact the organising committee if you have material to sell.
Registration:
Members: 200 Euro (Non-doctors: 150 Euro)
Non-members: 250 Euro (Non-doctors: 200 Euro)
(Lunches on 24 and 25 October are included)
Late registration fee is 50 Euro for all registrations received after 15 September 2008.
Participants from Eastern and Central European countries are offered a reduced fee of 100 Euro.
Registration can be done using the registration form, which can be downloaded here. Please complete the form on the screen, then print and sign it before sending it back via postal mail or fax.
Payments can be done by credit card or bank transfer. Any bank transfer must be done without charging fees to FIAPAC.
Dinner on 24th October is 50 Euro and will be charged separately. Please keep in mind that the number of seats are limited and will be allotted on a first-come first-serve basis.
Accommodation:
Participants are encouraged to make the hotel booking as soon as possible. There are several other conference at the same date and demand for hotel rooms is expected to be high.
The conference venue is centrally located, with many hotels in the area.
The following hotels are within walking distance and have rooms available for congress participants. Please make your reservation under the title: ‘FIAPAC congress:
- Best Western, double room 122 Euro plus 8 Euro for breakfast,Tel. +49 30-526800-0, www.berlin-mitte.bestwestern.de, email: info@berlin-mitte.bestwestern.de
- Mercure Hotel Berlin, An der Charité, double room 134 Euro incl. breakfast,+49 30 308 26-915, www.mercure.com, email: h5341@accor.com
- Ramada Hotel Berlin Mitte, double room 146 Euro incl. breakfast, Tel +49 30 236250640, www.ramada-berlin-mitte.de, email: jana.wunderlich@ramada.de
More recommendations of hotels in Berlin:
- Meininger Hostel, Tel. , double room 54 Euro incl. breakfast, www.meininger-hostels.com
- Hotel Transit, double room 72 Euro incl breakfasst, Tel +49 30 789 04 70, www.transit-hotels.com, welcome@hotel-transit.de
- Arthotel Friedrichstr, double room 79-150 Euro , Tel +49 30 28448-0, www.luise-berlin.com, info@luise-berlin.com
- Courtyard Mariott, double room 189 Euro including breakfast., Tel +49 30 8009280, www.marriott.com
You can also make hotel reservations using the following sites:
www.berlin.de
or
www.berlin-tourist-information.de
Conference venue:
The conference will take place in a historic building, the Virchow-Langenbeck-House, built in 1915. It is very centrally located, at Luisenstraße 58/59, 10117 Berlin (Mitte). This is next to the Charité University Hospital, near the main central train station (Hauptbahnhof), and within walking distance from the famous central street ‘Unter den Linden’.
The building is newly renovated, with all facilities to continue its fine tradition of medical education: www.langenbeck-virchow-haus.de
Getting there:
Arriving at the airport Tegel: take the Bus TXL to Karlplatz. From there it is a 3-minute walk to the Charité University Hospital. Or, take bus no. 147 to the next stop: Luisenstraße/Charité, which is in front of the conference venue. A taxi from the airport Tegel takes about 20 minutes.
Arriving at the airport Schönefeld: take the S-Bahn or train (Regionalbahn) to S-/U-Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse. Change to bus no. 147 (direction Leopoldplatz) and get off at: Luisenstraße/Charité, which is in front of the conference venue. Or walk 15 minutes from the train station (it´s a nice walk!)
A taxi from the airport Schönefeld takes around 50-60 minutes, depending on traffic.
Arriving by train at the main station (Hauptbahnhof): take bus no. 147 (direction Puschkinallee) and get off at Luisenstraße/Charité, which is in front of the conference venue.
Arriving by train at the Eastern train station (Ostbahnhof): take the fast train (S-Bahn) to Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. Change to bus no. 147 (direction Leopoldplatz) and get off at ‘Luisenstraße/Charité’, which is in front of the conference venue.
The nearest subway stops (U-Bahn) are: Oranienburger Tor and Zinnowitzer Str.
The nearest fast train stops (S-Bahn) are: Hauptbahnhof, Oranienburger Str. and Friedrichstr. All of them are around 20-30 minutes walking distance, or take bus no. 147.
FIAPAC organising committee
Tel: +43 699 178 178 03
Fax. + 43 1 89 22 581
Mariahilfergürtel 37
A-1150 Vienna
e-mail: fiapac@aon.at
Homepage: www.fiapac.org
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