• September Official Newsletter Now Available Online
• IUGA Booth at AUGS Meeting
• PROTECT Program Successful Completions
• Women’s Health Beyond Reproduction – a New Agenda

The September issue of the IUGA official newsletter is now available online to members only. This issue features a summary of the 2013 meeting in Dublin, an update on the Foundation for International Urogynecological Assistance, a letter from IUGA’s President and more. Please click here to download and read it.

If you are attending the American Urogynecologic Society’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, please plan to visit the IUGA booth on the exhibition floor. Staff at the booth will have information about IUGA’s most current projects and initiatives, samples of popular articles from the IUJ, terminology papers, grants information and more. Bring your friends along to sign-up for an IUGA membership and they could win a package of items from our online store including brochures, illustration pads, POPStix and posters.  Anyone interested in volunteering at the booth to speak with existing and potential members should e-mail Amy Cassini, Membership Manager, at amy@iuga.org. Hope to see  you there!

The PROTECT  Train the Trainer Program was created in 2000 to minimise pelvic floor and perineal morbidity associated with childbirth. Participants in the program must complete a 4-step process in order to become certified as PROTECT trainers. Congratulations to the following four delegates who have recently successfully completed the program:

1. Natarajan Rajamaheswari – Chennai, India
2. Louise Tomlinson – Auckland, New Zealand
3. Roger Capmartin Salinas – Santa Marta, Colombia
4. Rachid El Haddad – Prague, Czech Republic

More information forthcoming in the next issue of IUGA’s electronic newsletter.

For more information about the PROTECT program, including the steps involved with completing it, please visit http://www.iuga.org/?page=protect.

This month’s theme for the World Health Organization’s monthly bulletin is Women’s Health Beyond Reproduction – A New Agenda. The bulletin features articles about important topics and initiatives related to women’s health including an announcement about the United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, a report on efforts to understand why breast cancer rates differ worldwide and what is needed to address the emerging epidemic of chronic diseases among women. Click here to read the whole bulletin.