Sexual Health Conferences are hosted by top organizations and associations around the world to provide people with essential sexual education.
These conferences contain some of the best and most knowledgeable speakers who help provide proper education and details about improving sexual health and well-being. It helps solve all doubts related to any sexual disease, family planning, sexual health, and much more.
This way people are able to understand their body and connect better with themselves. In this article, we will take a look at the top sexual health conferences held by people around the world.
ASHA (American Sexual Health Association)
The American Sexual Health Association (ASHA) is an association that helps improve families, and communities to acquire sexually healthy lives through proper education and advocacy.
This organization aims to comprehensive sexual health information and ensure everyone is able to access sexual and reproductive health services. ASHA believes everyone has the right to information and services related to sexual health free from coercion, violence, and discrimination across the lifespan.
STI & HIV World Congress
Various leading researchers, healthcare professionals, and clinicians from across the world will be featured in the 2023 STI & HIV World Congress.
Contraceptive Technology conference
The Contraceptive Technology Conference is another conference held by ASHA that offers people the chance to encounter and confront an array of leaders and stakeholders working in sexual health, contraceptive technology, and reproductive health. The 2023 Conference was held in Atlanta, GA which took place on September 20-22, 2023.
World Association for Sexual Health
WAS (World Association for Sexual Health) is one of the leading organizations that helps represent a large number of people who work in Sexual Health around the world. This includes Educators, sexual health activists, Healthcare Professionals, and more.
The main vision of WAS is to create a safe place where everyone has access to Sexual Health, Rights, Pleasure, and Justice. WAS was able to achieve this through a variety of global memberships, strategic collaborations, and regional federations.
Here are the upcoming events scheduled by the World Association for Sexual Health which will help Enhance the professional capacities of sexual health practitioners. It will also support and advance comprehensive sexuality education.
26th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health which will take place on November 2 – November 5. This event will take place at Mirage Park Resort Hotel Antalya, Turkey.
The 2023 Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality is the next event which will take place on November 16 – November 19 in New Orleans, United States
National Reproductive Health Conference
The Annual National Reproductive Health Conference (NRHC) by CTC-SRH is the only national conference that is dedicated to Title X clinicians and sexual and reproductive health professionals. The 2023 NRHC took place on September 11-13, which was entirely virtual.
This conference is mainly set for discussing topics related to reproductive and sexual health. Therefore, educators, professors, clinic administrators, assistants, nurses, and more can gain beneficial and detailed knowledge and understanding about reproductive health through this conference.
However, users can still get On-demand access which is specially available for all the sessions except for pre-conference skill sessions. In case you missed out on any live attendance, then you still have a chance to sign up for access through the on-demand content which is available till December 31, 2023.
ISSWSH
ISSWSH is an extraordinary organization that aims to provide opportunities for communication and knowledge about women’s sexual function and sexual experience among scholars, researchers, and practitioners. This organization ensures to provide accurate information about women’s sexuality and sexual health.
The 2024 ISSWSH Annual Meeting will take place on February 22-25, 2024 at Hyatt Regency Long Beach – Long Beach, CA.
ISSWSH Annual Meeting provides proper details and information about women’s sexual function. It contains details about the diagnosis and therapy of women’s sexual dysfunction, as well as education lectures and courses before and during the plenary session for sexual health professionals, sexual healthcare providers, and basic scientists.
With this conference, professionals will also get the latest information on the impact of cancer and chronic disease on sexual function.
Sexual Health Alliance
Sexual Health Alliance (SHA) helps connect people with some of the best world-class experts who can help build the sexual career you always desire.
SHA connects people to an engaged community of sexuality professionals across the world who can help you learn and understand everything about sexuality, not just the basics but an advanced level of knowledge.
The conference hosted by SHA is open to everyone, SHA hosts 12 to 14 events every year in hopes of providing clear and comprehensive education on sexuality and sexual health.
National Sexual Health Conference
The Nation Coalition of STD Directors understands that sexual health is a crucial part of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being.
This makes it important to have a positive and respectful approach toward sexuality and ensure to have pleasurable and safe experiences, which are free of coercion, violence, and discrimination.
The National Sexual Health Conference worked towards creating opportunities to share helpful information, knowledge, and best practices towards sexual health. This administration is highly involved in clinical care, disciplines of education, and advocacy.
Along with increasing the capacity for reinforcement of healthy, responsible, and respectful sexual behaviors and relationships. The topics discussed during the conference were Reproductive Health, Comprehensive Sexual Education, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Viral Hepatitis, Substance Abuse, Cultural Responsiveness, and more.
This conference brings together some of the best educators, researchers, clinicians, and healthcare administrators across the United States. The main goal of this conference was to enhance people’s knowledge, communication, and respectful attitudes towards sexual health.
2023 NFPRHA National Conference
NFPRHA is an association that helps provide users with beneficial education and knowledge regarding family planning.
This information is extremely vital for couples who are aiming to have a family as it represents administrators and providers who help people get family planning education and ensure they make the best choice when it comes to their loved ones.
This community works towards improving the ability of doctors, nurse practitioners, and various other health professionals by providing essential family planning care through excellent advocacy and training.
The 2023 NFPRHA National Conference took place on June 11-14 which was held in person, in Washington, DC. Plenty of live sessions were made available live for people wanting to attend the conference virtually.
This year’s National Conference offered important information on topics such as Title X, medication abortion, contraceptive access, and addressing racism in family planning and sexual health.
SASH Sexual Health Colloquium
SASH is another excellent organization that provides excellent resources in sexual health & problematic sexual behavior information. Users can become a member and gain access to SASH’s annual conference, referrals, discounts on training, and much more.
The Sexual Health Colloquium is an upcoming event that will take place on October 13, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It will be followed by a virtual poster presentation with current studies completed by students who are involved in scholarship on prevailing sexual health issues.
The Sexual Health Colloquium is a virtual one-day conference that includes sessions on numerous topics related to sexual health. These sessions include research findings on sex therapy after a child has been abused, couples’ sexual health, psychiatry, sexual medicine, and more.
Meanwhile, the theme of the SASH Annual conference is Shattering Sexual Stigma Across Cultures. For now, the date and timing of the annual conference are yet to be disclosed.
PMNCH
PMNCH is one of the largest alliances for the well-being and health of women, children, and adolescents. This organization contains more than 14,000 partner organizations working all together through 10 constituency groups.
These groups include NGOs, Health professional associations, Partner governments, academic and research institutions, donors and foundations, private sector organizations, and much more.
PMNCH is hosted by none other than the World Health Organization, based in Geneva. The main goal of PMNCH is to make sure every child, woman, and adolescent is able to understand and realize their health and well-being is highly important and deserves proper care leaving no one behind.
PMNCH has an upcoming event called World Health Summit 2023 which will be held in Berlin, people can also attend this conference virtually. The main motive behind this conference is to provide innovative and inspiring solutions for the better well-being and health of women, children, and adolescents.
National SexEd conference
The National SexEd conference is one of the most massive conferences held in the United States. This conference is specially designed for sexuality educators, as it aims to enhance educators’ knowledge by providing extraordinary sessions on sexuality and sexual health.
The National SexEd conference allows educators of all age groups, in all types of settings, and is highly interactive by providing participants with materials they can easily replicate.
The Center for Sex Education (CSE) has been involved in hosting the conference since 1985. The 2023 National Sex Ed Conference will be held on December 5-8, 2023 at Tropicana in Atlantic City, NJ.
Reproductive Health Innovation Summit
Reproductive Health Innovation Summit (RHIS) is a unique platform that helps enhance people’s knowledge of reproductive health. It provides essential guidance and information on both male and female sectors.
RHIS enables businesses to thrive and it does it by uplifting partners, access to senior leaders, and facilitating connections. This organization aims to continue upholding its commitments to meetings and fulfilling essential demands of the reproductive health landscape.
The Reproductive Health Innovation Summit will take place on 13-14 February 2024 in Boston, United States. Through this conference, the organization aims to continue to address people regarding pressing industry topics.
This session will broadly be split into important pillars of reproductive health which are Family Planning and Fertility, Pregnancy, and Maternal health, and Reproductive Health Issues/Changes.
9th Annual NYS Sexual Health Conference
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is another one of the foremost academic medical centers. It is one of the country’s leading academic medical centers. It forms the centerpiece of the University of Rochester’s health research, teaching, and patient care missions.
The 9th Annual NYS Sexual Health Conference took place on June 5, 2023. This was a free conference that was mainly intended for clinicians including MD, CNM, PharmD, DDS, and more) working in NYS or caring for NYS patients.
The theme of this year’s conference was Emerging Issues and Practice Updates, and it included various topics such as STIs of the eye, updates on new biomedical STI prevention strategies, antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea, and much more.
FSRH Annual Conference
FSRH Annual Conference is one of the leading conferences that provides informative and beneficial sexual and reproductive healthcare professionals.
This platform aims to improve users’ knowledge about sexual health and ensures everyone has access to education on sexual health. The 2023 FSRH Annual Conference will take place on 8th December (Friday).
This conference will help provide cutting-edge knowledge and insights to improve practice and services in primary care and other settings. This conference is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of FSRH.
Last year’s conference included more than 500 colleagues across the sexual and reproductive healthcare community to hear from some of the most high-profile speakers working in the field today.