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Central European Regional Congress of Medical Women's International
 Association (MWIA) 29-30 June 2012 in Batumi/Georgia
 - GENDER

MWIA takes action for healthier women to get a healthier world
Gender knowledge in medicine needs to be fostered in medical curricula
 and in all medical textbooks and instruction leaflets in Europe
 MWIA will support Georgia to found a Gender Medicine Institute

 Central European Regional Congress of Medical Women's International
 Association (MWIA) was held last weekend in Batumi/Georgia themed "The
 Actual Topics on Women Health". About 250 participants from all over the
 world, of course mainly of Europe e.g. from Austria, Australia, New
 Zealand
, France, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Aserbaidschan, Norway and
 Russia participated in this congress. The congress was dealing with
 highly relevant issues like how to overcome gender related differences
 in health and healthcare between women and men, girls and boys. In this
 regard Medical Women's International Association (MWIA) will support
 Georgia to found a Gender Medicine Institute.

 On the occasion of the congress Dr. Waltraud Diekhaus (Germany), MWIA
 Vice-President of Central Europe and Dr. Cisca Griffeon (The
 Netherlands), Vice President from Northern Europe stated: "Gender
 medicine should be part of the training of medical specialists.
 Diversity between men and women strongly has to get significant impact
 on medical policies. All medical textbooks and instruction leaflets from
 drugs in Europe need gender specific data and must be written anew,
 because Sex and Gender have different impact on women's and men's health.

 Fifteen years since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995
 have brought important changes, but in terms of meeting the commitments
 for women's health the journey is still at the beginning. The crucial
 role of women at the local level especially in the Eastern countries
 means creating the conditions for social change necessary to resolve the
 issues of poverty, education, inequality and special diseases.

 The main problem in the health sector is that the diversity between men
 and women has not yet had any significant impact on the medical
 policies. Finally our demand is as such: all medical textbooks and all
 instruction leaflets from drugs need gender specific data, which means
 they must be written anew, thus representing a good chance to advance
 equality between men and women. Combating gender stereotypes means
 tackling the fundamental causes of persisting gaps in medicine. Gender
 knowledge in medicine also needs to be fostered in all European medical
 curricula - for the benefit of men and women".

 Press Contact: Dr. med. Waltraud Diekhaus, E-Mail:
w.diekhaus@online.de
 Gundel Köbke, E-Mail:
mail@gundel-koebke.de

 Dr. Shelley Ross, E-mail: shelley.ross@usa.net