PELVIC INFLAMMATORY diseases and Dr. Barbara
disease costs the Canadian Romanowski, associate professor
economy at least $140 million ana- of medicine at the University of
nually, causes half of ectopic Alberta, will be the keynote

speakers at a coaference on pelvic
inflammatory cisease (PID).

“PID had quite rightly been
labelled as a silent epidemic,”* said
Naomi McPherson, PhD and
chairwoman of the North Shore
Women’s Centre. *‘As a group, it
is women who are most at risk, yet

pregnancies and leaves thousands
of Canadian women with infertility
or chronic pelvic pain every year.

Marion Todd, chairperson of

the federa! goverament’s Expert
Interdisciplinary Advisory
sexually

Com-

Mittee on transmitied

few women know what PID is,
how it is transmiued, what the
symptoms are, or the consequences
of the disease in terms of such
things as chronic pain, the risk of
ectopic pregnancy and infertility,”
she said. “PID is a serious health
problem that every year affects
thousands of Canadian women
and the North Shore Women’s
Centre urges North Shore women
to aitend the conference on PID

45 - Wednesday, October 25, 1989 ~ North Shore News

Conference to address pelvic inflammatory disease

on Saturday to educate and inform
themselves about this discase,”’
McPherson added.

According is experts, pelvic in-
flammatory disease (the term
refers to infection or inflammation
of a woman’s pelvic organs or the
surroundiung tissue) is the most
eommon and most serious com-
plication of sexually transmitted
diseases in women. One in four
wemen who contract PID will de-

velop a serious long-term conse-
quence.

The conference will be held
Saturday, Oct. 28, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., at the Simon Fraser Univer-
sity downtown campus, 515 West
Hastings St, Vancouver. Registra-
tion is free, lunch will be provided
and childcare and sign language
interpretation will be available on
request.

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