Women's Health and Safe Motherhood: The Role of the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

The World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics jointly convened, in connection with the XII World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics, October 1988, a pre-congress workshop. It was attended by some 70 participants from all regions of the world, including members of the WHO/FIGO Task Force and representatives of the International Council of Midwives, International Planned Parenthood Federation and Carnegie Corporation. Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of UNFPA made the opening presentation on Women's health, their status and their needs. The workshop had as its overall objective the development of nationally oriented strategies for the involvement of obstetricians and gynecologists, both as individuals and through their national OB/GYN societies, in advocacy and technical support for safe motherhood and women's health.