Programme of the Eighth International Congress of
FIAPAC
“Reproductive Health and Responsibilities”
24/25 October 2008 - Berlin, Germany
Virchow-Langenbeck-House, Luisenstraße 58/59, 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Please find a map online here
The congress is recognised as continuous medical education (CME) by the Medical Council of Berlin.
Supported by:
Berlin Family Planning Centre - BALANCE
Pro Familia Bundesverband
German Association of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
German Association for Psychosomatic in Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Berlin Association of Midwifes
Scientific committee:
Elisabeth Aubeny (France), Christian Fiala (Austria), Kristina Gemzell (Sweden), Mirella Parachini (Italy), Sam Rowlands (Great Britain), Anne Verougstraete (Belgium)
Local organising committee:
Ulrike Busch, Christian Fiala, Gabriele Halder, Blanka Kothe, Sybill Schulz, Christiane Tennhardt
(T)= simultaneous translation available
Thursday, 23 October 2008
15 00 – 18 00 Registration
Friday, 24 October 2008
8 00 Registration
9 00 Welcome Auditorium (T)
- President's welcome, Christian Fiala (Austria)
- Welcome address: Dr. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Permanent Secretary, Senate Department for Health, the Environment and Consumer Protection of the Berlin county
- Parliamentarians' responsibility for reproductive health, Christine McCAFFERTY Member of Parliament, United Kingdom
9 30 Plenary Session 1: Society’s Responsibilities for Reproductive Health Auditorium (T)
Chair: Mirella Parachini (Italy), Sybill Schulz (Germany)
- Access to safe legal abortion in developing countries, Monica Roa (Colombia)
- Society’s responsibility to provide safe abortion care, Ann Furedi (Great Britain)
- Society’s responsibility to provide a legal setting, Christian Fiala (Austria)
- What happens if society opts out? Vicki Saporta, (United States)
10 45 Coffee break
11 15 Plenary Session 2: Benefits and risks of abortion Auditorium (T)
Chair: Elisabeth Aubeny (France), André Seidenberg (Switzerland)
- Physiological and reproductive outcomes, Michel Tournaire (France)
- Outcomes for women based on psychological background, Sharon Cameron (Scotland)
- Consequences of unwanted childbirth: Outcomes for women and unwanted children, Catherine Bonnet (France)
- Psychological impacts on men, Ann Lalos (Sweden)
12 30 Lunch
14 00 Workshops
- Methods – What’s new? Linan Cheng (China)
- Mode of action: No evidence for effect post-fertilization, Kristina Gemzell (Sweden)
- Is there a reduction in abortion rates? Sharon Cameron (Scotland)
- Experiences with over-the-counter access, Ulla Ollendorff (Norway)
- Experiences with prescription-only access, Ines Thonke (Germany)
15 30 Coffee break
16 00 Plenary Session 3: Second trimester abortion Auditorium (T)
Chair: Marc Bygdeman (Sweden), Blanka Kothe (Germany)
- Medical methods: Advantages and disadvantages, Kristina Gemzell (Sweden)
- Surgical methods: Advantages and disadvantages, Josep Carbonell (Spain)
- Overview of current laws in Europe, Hans-Georg Koch (Germany)
- Consequences of the laws for women and political challenges in Europe, Marge Berer (Great Britain)
17 20 FIAPAC General Assembly
20 00 Gala dinner in the Red Town Hall
Saturday, 25 October 2008
9 00 Plenary Session 4: Changing attitudes towards abortion: Endangering women’s health again Auditorium (T)
Chair: Christian Fiala (Austria), Ellen Wiebe (Canada)
- Spain: Legal actions against health care professionals, Eva Rodriguez (Spain)
- Netherlands: L egal action against a woman, Robert Blekxtoon (Netherlands)
- Italy: Continous political interference by the Vatican, Silvio Viale (Italy)
- Eastern Europe: Turning back the wheel?
Rodica Comendant (Moldavia)
- Developing a strategic approach to the threat to women’s health, Ann Furedi (Great Britain)
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 Auditorium (T)
Chair: Kristina Gemzell (Sweden), Michel Tournaire (France)
- New developments in medical abortion care at 9-13 weeks, Alan Templeton (Scotland)
- Cervical priming prior to surgical abortion, Helena von Hertzen (WHO)
- Where should medical abortions take place?
Elisabeth Aubeny (France)
- Abortion care over the Internet: New options for women, Gunilla Kleiverda (The Netherlands)
17 30 Final Plenary Session Auditorium (T)
Chair: Christiane Tennhardt (Germany), Ana Campos (Portugal)
- Why do we need new contraceptives? Regine Sitruk-Ware (United States)
- Why safe abortion and contraception is a necessity for society, Marcel Vekemans (IPPF)
- Closing remarks: How to move forward, Christian Fiala (Austria)
- Introducing the new President of FIAPAC
18 30 Get together
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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.
This sessions also take place in the Virchow-Langenbeck House
German Session/ Deutschsprachige Sitzung
Raum „Bernhard von Langenbeck“ (1. Stock)
9 30 Medikamentöser Abbruch im 1. Trimenon/ 1st trimester medical abortion
Vorsitz: Ulrike Busch (Deutschland)
- Grundlagen des medikamentösen Abbruchs mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der 7.-9. Woche, Johannes Bitzer (Schweiz)
- Med. Abbruch in Praxen und Kliniken, Gabriele Halder (Deutschland)
- Cytotec-Einnahme zuhause? Christiane Tennhardt (Deutschland)
- Die Nachuntersuchung, was sollte beachtet werden? Christian Fiala (Österreich)
11 00 Kaffepause
11 30 Medikamentöser Abbruch im 2. Trimenon/ 2nd trimester medical abortion
Vorsitz: Johannes Bitzer (Schweiz)
- Rechtliche Situation, Jette Brünig (Deutschland)
- Psychosoziale Beratung – „Berliner Modell“, Jette Brünig (Deutschland)
- Therapieschema und Abläufe in der Klinik, Blanka Kothé (Deutschland)
French session/Matinée francophone : partage des expériences sur l’avortement du premier trimestre
Salle Rudolf Virchow (2ème étage)
9 30 Première partie: Questions sur l'IVG médicamenteuse
Modérateur: Elisabeth Aubény (France)
11 00 Pause café
11 30 Deuxième partie: Questions sur l''avortement chirurgicale
Modérateur: Mirella Parachini (Italy)
- Quelle anaesthésie: locale, générale ? et dans quels locaux ? A. Veroustrate (Belgium)
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La dilatation du col:
- systématique ou pas ? Josep Carbonell (Spain)
- quel médicament ? Ana Campos (Portugal)
Lecture rooms:
Inside the Langenbeck-Virchow House are the following rooms:
- Auditorium, the main lecture room is accesible on the 2. and 3. floor
- Room 'Bernhard von Langenbeck' (1. floor)
- Room 'Rudolf Virchow' (2. floor)
within 3 min walking distance:
- Lecture room of Neurology
The program may be subject to change without notice. Please look for the latest version of the program on the website: www.fiapac.org
Poster exhibition is on the 2. floor and will be open during both congress days.
- Monitoring the reproductive health, Marcela Bulcu (Italy)
- Reproductive health women rights in Tunisia, R. Ben Aissa et al. (Tunisia)
- And after the Referendum? Matilde Salta, Mara Carvalho, Vasco Freire (Portugal)
- Clínica El Sur, a Socially Responsible Company, C. Rubio et al. (Spain)
- Detection of violence against women via screening at the occasion of request for pregnancy termination, C. D. Liengme et al. (Switzerland)
- Long-acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Can Decrease Unintended Pregnancy and Repeat Abortion, J. Joseph Speidel (United States)
- Medical students as peer educators in sexual health, Raha Shojai et al. (France)
- Medicated IUD after induced abortion, Giovanna Scassellati (Italy)
- Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system – an alternative for therapeutic amenorrhea and contraception in disabled women, Satu Suhonen (Finland)
- Emergency contraceptive use among 5677 abortion seeking women in Shanghai, Chun-Xia Meng et al. (China/Sweden)
- Contraception in Immigrant Women in the Family Counselling Center, Lucia Tossichetti et al. (Italy)
- Deciding on Abortion. The Female Teenager’s Dilemma of having Contraceptive Responsibility, but Limited Freedom of Reproductive Choice, Maria Ekstrand et al. (Sweden)
- Abortion in Portuguese Health Primary Care, Cunha José Manuel et al. (Portugal)
- Coresponsibility and equity fairness in abortion services oriented to vulnerable groups of women, Elvira Méndez (Spain)
- Sociologic Aspects of Legalized Abortion in Portugal. 1 Year Experience, Renato Martins et al. (Portugal)
- Abortion request during adolescence and management of confidentiality. A challenging issue, D. Wyss et al. (Switzerland)
- Abortion among minors. A French perspective, A. Durrieux ete al. (France)
- Termination of pregnancy among under 21, Gaël Lévéder (Spain)
- The experience of the settling of a new abortion center in the French speaking part of Belgium, Cécile Artus (Belgium)
- Medical abortion in France. The benefits of a complex procedure, P. Roblin et al. (France)
- A pilot study on women’s experiences with misoprostol at home or in the hospital in medical abortion up to 63 days of pregnancy, Monica Johansson et al. (Sweden)
- Medical abortion at home, Monica Johansson et al. (Sweden)
- Home abortion. Experiences of women and their partners, Marianne Wulff et al. (Sweden)
- Womens experience of home-abortion, R. Hjertberg et al. (Sweden)
- Abortions at home in Gothenburg, Monika Axelsson et al. (Sweden)
- Management of first trimester termination of pregnancy as an out-patient in Paisley – is it feasible, is it acceptable and is it worthwhile? Rosemary Cochrane (Great Britain)
- Medical abortion efficacy at 8 and 9 weeks, Ana Rita Pinto et al. (Portugal)
- High failure rates of medical termination of pregnancy after the introduction to a large teaching hospital, D. Vitner et al. (Israel)
- The effectiveness of ultrasound and s-βhCG measurement in predicting failure after medical abortion, Raquel Maciel (Portugal)
- Paracervical block versus intracervical injection for pain management during first-trimester surgical abortion under local anaesthesia, N. Ambassa et al. (France)
- Local Anaesthesia compared to General Anaesthesia, Giovanna Scassellati (Italy)
- Status of reproductive health of women after surgical abortion, O. Revenko et al. (Ukraine)
- Misoprostol-only compared with solution of NaCl 20%for induction of second trimester abortion A. Manaj, A. Musta (Albania)
- The psycho-social aspect of the second trimester abortion with teenagers, Milica Berisavac et al. (Serbia)
Two art exibitions are on display during the congress:
- Flags against sexual violence
against women
Many people have written or painted a message on flags, which are attached to the ceiling. This gives a very
impressive message.
- Photographs on display at the 4th floor
A woman photographer from Berlin, has taken very sensitive pictures of the vulva of many different women, together with flowers or landscapes with similar shapes. They provide a fascinating artistic complement to
a scientific conference.
Berlin Medical
Historical Museum: A one hour guided tour is offered on Friday at 6pm. The tour will be in English and is 5 Euro per person. The
museum is within 5 min walking distance from the congress venue.
Language:
All presentations will be given in English.
Simultaneous translation into French, German and Spanish will be available in the auditorium. There is no translation in the workshops outside the auditorium.
Questions will be translated from these languages into English.
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
We are grateful for their support for the following companies :
Golden Sponsor:
Exelgyn, France
Bayer Schering Pharma, Germany
Silver Sponsor:
Contragest, Germany
Kessel-Marketing, Germany
Ipas, US
The following companies are also represented with a booth:
CASA clinics, The Netherlands
Beahuis & Bloemenhoveklniek, The Netherlands
Eisenhut, Germany
The organisation of the conference is supported by Gynmed Clinic, Austria
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 made 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 conferences on 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, Tel +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, 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
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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