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Call For Abstracts

The Scientific Programme Committee for the SASOG 2026 Congress are pleased to announce that abstract submission for the Congress are now open.  Please read through the following information prior to submitting your abstract.

The overall Congress theme is From Data to Dignity: Transforming Women’s Health through Research and Advocacy.

Abstracts can be submitted under the following themes, and the submission deadline has been extended to 23 March 2026:

Congress Themes

1. Holistic Women's Health & Maternal Care: Physical Recovery and Rehabilitation

  • Physiotherapy in antenatal and postpartum care
  • Pelvic floor health: prevention, screening, and rehabilitation
  • Non-surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence
  • Multidisciplinary approaches to pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction

2. Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing (Patient & Physician)

  • Screening and managing maternal mental health disorders
  • Trauma-informed obstetric care and birth trauma prevention
  • Postpartum depression, anxiety, and psychosis: detection and referral pathways
  • Moral distress and moral injury in O&G decision-making
  • Recognising burnout, depression, and anxiety among O&G professionals
  • Post-traumatic stress in clinicians after O&G emergencies
  • Psychological safety in the labour ward: how leadership affects team wellbeing
  • Work-life boundaries and recovery in high-intensity specialties
  • Reflective practice and debriefing after critical incidents
  • Achieving personal and organisational resilience
  • Supervision and Mentorship in O&G

3. Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifespan

  • Sexual health consultations: practical approaches for clinicians
  • Impact of pelvic floor dysfunction on sexual function
  • Sexual wellness interventions and devices in therapy
  • Inclusive care for LGBTQIA+ patients: clinical, legal, and ethical considerations
  • Rights-based approaches to contraception and abortion care: lessons from regional data.
  • Addressing IPV/GBV (including sexual assault)- raising awareness and effective strategies to manage the dilemma

4. Medico-Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Care

  • Trends and lessons from O&G litigation
  • Informed consent beyond paperwork: communication and dignity
  • High-risk scenarios and medicolegal implications
  • Responding to adverse events: disclosure, documentation, and self-care

5. Midwifery and Models of Respectful Care

  • Midwife-led care in South Africa: opportunities and challenges
  • Positive birth experiences: autonomy and safety
  • Birthing positions and innovative birthing equipment
  • Balancing dignity and patient safety during labour
  • Implementation science: translating obstetric guidelines into practice.

6. Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Innovation

  • Neuro-affirming approaches in O&G
  • Updates on complex medical conditions in pregnancy (including diabetes, CKD, autoimmune disorders)
  • Advances in fetal monitoring and interpretation (including CTG, cerebroplacental ratio)
  • Bereavement care and creating support teams for perinatal loss

7. Maternal Fetal Medicine

  • Leveraging perinatal data to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity in low-resource settings.
  • Innovations in fetal surveillance: AI, biomarkers, and predictive modeling to reduce adverse outcomes
  • Advocacy for equitable access to maternal-fetal interventions across public and private sectors.

8. Reproductive Medicine

  • Personalised fertility care: using data to improve outcomes in ART and ovulation induction.
  • Ethical and policy challenges in gamete donation and surrogacy in South Africa.
  • Advocacy for public sector fertility services: cost-effectiveness and equity.
  • Reproductive enhancing surgical interventions

9. Non-surgical Gynaecology

  • Hormonal therapies and long-acting reversible contraception: safety, efficacy, and access.
  • Data-informed management of abnormal uterine bleeding: algorithms and outcomes.
  • Patient-centered care in menopause management: dignity through shared decision-making.

10. Women's Cancer

  • Cervical cancer elimination: progress, data gaps, and advocacy for HPV vaccination.
  • Precision oncology in gynaecological cancers: integrating genomics into clinical care.
  • Survivorship and dignity: addressing long-term effects and psychosocial needs post-treatment.
  • Cancer survivorship – awareness and fertility preservation options

11. Surgery in Gynaecology (Video/case reports)

12. Miscellaneous

  • Endometriosis – diagnosis and treatment
  • Fibroids – different treatment options (efficacy vs. safety)

Submission Guidelines and Information

Abstracts must be submitted online, emailed submissions will not be accepted.  If you require assistance with submitting an abstract online, please contact Kerry Firmani – Kerry@tcon.org.za

Your submission title should not exceed 50 words.

Your submission body text should not exceed 300 words.  Submissions over the word count will show as “incomplete” on the system.

Do not include your title, authors or affiliations in the abstract body text.  These are entered separately in the system.

Abstracts must be submitted in English.

Abstracts must follow a structured format.  Subheadings for Introduction, Method, Results and Conclusion should be used where possible.

Abstracts can be submitted for oral or poster presentations. Authors are not guaranteed an oral presentation slot if oral presentation is selected.  A final decision will be made after the review process based on the reviewer’s feedback and space available in the programme.

Biographies will be used on the Congress app and for the session chairpersons.

Previously presented/published abstracts are permitted provided the initial and subsequent conferences also allow so.

Permission should be obtained from all the listed authors prior to submission.

Please review your abstract for typographical, spelling and grammatical errors prior to submitting.

Review Process

Abstracts will undergo a double-blind review process.  The programme committee will make the final decision on acceptances based on the reviewer’s feedback.

Authors will be notified in writing by the 1st May 2026 of the final decision.

Presenting Author Registration

Presenting authors will be required to register and settle their payment thereof by 31st May 2026. If the original listed presenting author cannot attend, a co-author may present the work provided they are registered.
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Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline

Extended to 23 March 2026

Abstract Review Deadline

23 April 2026

Acceptance Notifications

1 May 2026

Presenting Author Registration Deadline

31 May 2026

Congress Dates

5 – 8 August 2026