Plenary Session 1
An introduction to contragestion
Chair: Danielle Choucroun, Luxembourg
Cristina Puig, Spain
- The history, the narrative and the language of contragestion - Elena Caruso, United Kingdom
- Drugs and Indications - Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Sweden
- Advocacy and Service Provision - Fatoumata Bah, United States
Plenary Session 2
New (and not-so-new) geographies of abortion access: telemedicine, travel, and the global shortage of later abortion care
Chair: Amna Dermish, United States
Samuel Yosef, United Kingdom
- The changing landscape of inequitable access: abortion in the era of telemedicine - Rebecca Blaylock, United Kingdom
- Who Still Has to Travel? Cross-Border Journeys, and International Routes to Care - Silvia De Zordo, Spain
- Why So Few Providers? Building Sustainable D&E Services for Later Uterine Evacuation - Patricia Lohr, United Kingdom
Plenary Session 3
Contraception scepticism
Chair: Janina Kaislasuo, Finland
Hildegard Mausbach, Spain
- Trends in contraceptive use in the Nordic countries - Frida Gyllenberg, Finland
- What's behind changing attitudes towards hormonal contraception? Evidence from Austria - Christian Fiala, Austria
- What's behind changing attitudes towards hormonal contraception? Insights from a scoping review of global qualitative research - Nicola Boydell, United Kingdom
- Q&A and Panel discussion
Panel Discussion
Abortion vs contraception, going beyond the (false) divide
Chair: Samuel Yosef, United Kingdom
- What rising abortion rates tell us about unmet contraceptive need - Teresa Bombas, Portugal
- Abortion is not a failure, but part of the reproductive continuum - Clare Murphy, United Kingdom
- Panel Discussion with Audience Participation
Plenary Session 4
Clinical updates
Chair: Margit Endler, Sweden
Carolina Rivas Barrera, Spain
- Managing First-Trimester Miscarriage: Results of the First Global Practice Survey - Christian Fiala, Austria
- Pain management for medical abortion - John Reynolds-Wright, United Kingdom
- Abortion beyond 1st trimester - Guillermo Ortiz, El Salvador
- Q&A and Panel Discussion
Plenary Session 5
A regional outlook
Chair: Sabina Bel, Spain
Sadok Amine Ben Hasine, Tunisia
- Quieroabortar.org: A State-level Initiative to Monitor and Advance Equitable Access to Abortion Care Across Spain - Jordi Baroja, Spain and Silvia Aldavert, Spain
- Access to Abortion in the Southern mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities - Selma Hajri, Tunisia
- Abortion Access and Barriers in Central and Eastern Europe - Cristian Furau, Romania and Ana Mitrovic, Serbia
- Q&A and Panel discussion
Plenary Session 6
Global perspectives
Chair: Angela Dawson, Australia
Susana Medina Salas, Venezuela
Panel discussion about Abortion Access & Advocacy in the world, and Contragestion Across Contexts, with:
- Sheila Akinyi, (Rwanda) African Coalition for Research and Communication on Abortion (ACORCA)
- Nandini Mazumder, (India), Asia Safe Abortion Partnership
- Agustina Michel, (Argentina) Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion (Clacai)
- Sadok Amine Ben Hassine, (Tunisia) International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)