At ICFP 2025 in Bogotá, the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) stood alongside global partners to defend Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and advance sexual health, rights, and justice. The week highlighted the leadership of WAS Vice-President Esther Corona Vargas, recipient of the ICFP 2025 Luminary Award, and renewed global solidarity around the Porto Proclamation on Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice.
L-R WAS Executive Director, Rene de Klerk, WAS President Faysal El Kak, WAS Immediate Past President Elna Rudolph, WAS Membership Relations Officer, Elzette le Roux. By Dr. Faysal El Kak, President of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) In October 2025, the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) joined thousands of delegates in Cape Town, South Africa, for the FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics — one of the world’s largest gatherings advancing sexua
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and while we celebrate rising survival rates - 8 million women are living as survivors today - we need to address what happens after treatment ends. As WAS President, Dr. Faysal El Kak, writes in our latest article: "Survival is only the first step in a lifelong process of recovery."
Every October, the world observes World Menopause Month and World Menopause Day (October 18) - a time to bring visibility to an experience that affects more than 1.2 billion women globally.
Menopause is a natural biological process marking the end of menstrual cycles, usually between the ages of 45 and 55. It involves significant hormonal, physical, emotional, and social changes - but it is not a disease or end of living.
On 5 September 2025, at the inaugural World Sexual Health Assembly in Porto, more than 40 global organizations adopted the Porto Proclamation on Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice. The Proclamation affirms sexual health as integral to dignity, sexual rights as human rights, and sexual justice as essential for equality. It sets global priorities for collective action to advance access, equity, accountability, and solidarity worldwide.
The inaugural World Sexual Health Assembly (WSHA) convened in Porto on 5 September 2025, uniting more than forty organizations and global leaders. Delegates signed the Porto Proclamation, a landmark commitment to advance sexual health, defend sexual rights, and champion sexual justice worldwide.
The World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) today issued a statement on Sexual Health and Rights during Times of War, expressing deep concern over the impact of armed conflict on the lives, health, and fundamental rights of affected populations.
WAS announces the 2025 Congress Award winners, celebrating global excellence across seven tracks of sexual health research, policy, education, and care at the 27th WAS Congress in Brisbane.
The World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) today issued a statement on Sexual Health and Rights during Times of War, expressing deep concern over the impact of armed conflict on the lives, health, and fundamental rights of affected populations.
TDOV sexual justice webinar, WAS 2025 accommodation, genital autonomy (foreskin day), Seminario S.I.R.U.: Percorsi di affermazione di genere e preservazione della fertilità
