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The program of the 19th WAS World Congress for Sexual Health aims to:
• Provide a forum for the presentation of high quality, original scientific research and clinical practice
• Promote the exchange of clinical, practical and scientific information and ideas
• Create greater understanding of the complex interactions which characterize human sexuality
• Allow delegates to keep up to date with industry research and developments
• Give delegates the opportunity to network with colleagues
The scientific program has been designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of medical experts working across the full range of sub specialties in the field of sexual health. Dialogue will be fostered through a range of formats - plenary sessions from invited international speakers from a wide range of disciplines, interactive workshops, case round table discussions, oral and poster sessions and industry symposia.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM PREVIEW
With "Sexual Health & Rights: A Global Challenge" as its theme, the Scientific Committee of the 19th WAS World Congress for Sexual Health welcomes contributions from the various sexological disciplines:
- Sexuality Education
- Sexological Research:
- Basic research
- Behavioral
- Clinical
- Educational
- Socio-Cultural
- Sexual Counseling
- Sexual Psychotherapy
- Sexual Medicine:
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Sexological Anthropology
- Sexological Sociology
The scientific program of the Congress will address a number of topics at the forefront of knowledge and interest for those involved in the promotion of Sexual Health. The following list represents the Organizing Committees special areas of interest:
• The right to choose one's sexual partners
• The right to choose who one marries and when
• The right to decide if and when to have children
• Genital mutilations
• The dynamics of attracting partners around the world
• The history of human sexuality
• The history of sexual science
• The history of sexual legislation
• Partner-related violence
• Rape
• Child sex abuse
• Sexual legislation and sexual rights in different countries
• Sexual enslavement
• Socio-cultural aspects of sexual concerns dysfunctions and disorders
• The world of paraphilias
• Sex and the internet
• Educating men and boys
• Supporting parents
• Educating sexual health professionals
• New models of sexuality education implementation
• Research on the effectiveness of sexuality education
• The controversy of abstinence oriented sexuality education
• Sexual habilitation and rehabilitation
• Psychotherapy of sexual dysfunction
• Combination strategies in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy
• Sexology for family physicians
• Sexology for obstetricians, gynecologists and midwives
• Sexology for nurses, other health professionals and teachers
• GLBT issues
• Transgender issues
• Clinical assessment of patients with sexual dysfunction
• New pharmacological principles in the treatment of sexual dysfunction and
disorders
• New perspectives in the treatment of problems of sexual desire.
• Treatment of female sexual dysfunction and disorders
• Female genital pain and dyspareunia
• New developments for treatment of premature ejaculation
• What is new in erectile dysfunction treatment?
• Political issues of HIV and STIs
• Behavioral issues of HIV and STIs
• Medical issues of HIV and STIs
• Current perspectives in AIDS treatment
• Public health issues on sexual health
• New traits in genetic sexology
• Environmental sexology
• The sexual life of the cancer patient
• Neurosexology
• Iatrogenic sexual dysfunction
• Cardiologic sexology
• Sexology of depression
• Hormones and sexuality
• Female orgasm and orgasmic dysfucntions
• Pheromones and sexuality
• The use of PET and fMRI in sexological research
• Sex and love in the brain
• The psychology of sex and love in the light of fMRI
• Passionate love and jealousy
• Maternal love
• Shakespeare and the nature of love
• Human sexuality and the arts
• Human sexuality and the literature
• Human sexuality and music
World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) Awards
Life-time achievements in sexual health, excellence in basic or clinical research, innovation in sexuality education and the best congress manuscript are recognized by WAS with several prestigious awards.
• The WAS Gold Medal Award for life-time achievements in sexual health (five recipients). Awardees will be asked to make a short presentation of their work (15 minutes maximum)
• WAS Award for Excellence & Innovation in Sexuality Education
Nominations are invited from WAS members for the WAS Gold Medal and the WAS Sexuality Education Awards . Nominations guidelines for the WAS Gold Medal are available on the WAS website at www.worldsexualhealth.org, or upon request with the Chairperson of the WAS Committee for WAS Gold Medal, Lillemor Rosenqvist (lillemorrosenqvist@swipnet.se). Guidelines and procedures for the WAS Award For Excellence & Innovation In Sexuality Education are available on the WAS website at www.worldsexualhealth.org.
