European Sexual Awareness Events (ESAE)

ESHA participation in Brasov conference Romania

Profesor Stamatis Papaharitou attends a conference in Romania on behalf of the European Sexual Health Alliance (HSHA).

The AMSR Conference was held in Brasov 6-8 April, 2008 in Brasov. Dr Calomfirescu kindly invited HSHA to participate and give an overview of our work in order to encourage other neighbouring countries to engage in activities aimed at increasing awareness of sexual dysfunction. Dr Calomfirescu presented the work that is being done in Romania aimed at patients. They are encouraged to send their questions via a website where experts answer queries regarding sex health issues. Professor Papaharitous presented HSHA's objectives, comparative data from different European countries as had been presented at the last ESSM meeting in Lisbon and the experience of the Greek centre, how the centre and the helpline were set up, how the staff is trained, local data and of course all the activities carried out by the Greek HSHA office, these include: workshops for pharmacists, GPs and other health professions, meetings and lobbying with patients organizations, the annual festival, clinical trials, basic research and community studies.

Dr Calomfirescu has been very active in encouraging Romania to join in HSHA activities and has adapted HSHA literature to the local language so that visitors to the Web site can get access to leaflets dealing with the most common sexual health issues for men and women.