The 11th FIAPAC Conference: Task Sharing in Abortion Care

October 3-4, 2014
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Gynuity staff presented on a number of topics at this meeting, including:

Gynuity panel session: Simplified Services in Medical Abortion, moderated by Beverly Winikoff

• Can we eliminate the mifepristone visit in medical abortion? Elizabeth Raymond
• Outpatient medical abortion in the later first trimester: Is it possible? Desirable? Ilana Dzuba
• Alternative schemes for follow-up, including use of a semi-quantitative pregnancy test. Wendy Sheldon
• How do women manage antibiotic pills after medical abortion? Laura Frye/Erica Chong (presented by Beverly Winikoff)

ICMA/EEARC panel session: Advocating for the access to safe abortion in Eastern European and Central Asian region: continuing challenges

• Successful opposition to attempts to limit the access to safe abortion: case of Ukraine. Galina Maistruk, Woman Health and Family Planning Charitable Foundation, Ukraine
• Sustainability of medical abortion services in Caucasian region. Tamar Tsereteli, Gynuity
• Using research to increase access to medical abortion in Uzbekistan. Dilfuza Kurbanbekova, Women’s Wellness Center, Uzbekistan
• Advocacy efforts to keep abortion safe and legal: Russian, Moldovan, Romanian, Macedonian case studies. Rodica Comendant, Reproductive Health Training Center, Moldova

Oral presentations

• Medical abortion with mifepristone + misoprostol at 13-22 weeks: how long between the mifepristone and the misoprostol? Dina Abbas, Gynuity
• Making medical abortion woman-centered and accessible in Kazakhstan. Ingrida Platais, Gynuity