Special Interest Group News

March, 2022

For International Women’s Day, SIG Ageing and Health has put together some brief vignettes about extraordinary older women.

March, 2022

Nearly 1 in 3 women globally have experienced intimate partner violence or any sexual violence in their life time

February, 2022

This is a space dedicated to caregivers and elderly patients, created with anonymous collaborations from the WONCA Special Interest Group on Ageing and Health. This section includes inspiring anecdotes for the simple purpose of adding value and quality to older patient’s lives.

December, 2021

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence joined thia annual international campaign to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.

October, 2020

This report highlights health equity activities from September 2019 to April 2020.

October, 2020

The 2019-2020 year has seen some significant growth for the WONCA special interest group (SIG) on emergency medicine. We now number more than 200 participants from all regions of the world, with very active participation. Updates are sent to members every 2-3 months detailing the work of the SIG and strong positive feedback on our activities is regularly received.

October, 2020

The Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIG FV) continues to work, expanding our global connections to systematically support family doctors to address family violence in practice and policy. Our current and future activities are structured under six main strategies: Connect, Resource, Support, Educate, Communicate, Evaluate.

October, 2020

The WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Adolescent and Young Adult Care will hold a webinar in the WONCA COVID-19 webinar series on 8 November. Also find out more about the SIG in their annual report

May, 2020

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence thanks WONCA World for hosting a webinar on Family Violence highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on this complex issue.

November, 2019

Prof Imran Rafi, convenor, SIG on Genetics reports on the development of this new group.