21st Congress of the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies (FAOPS) & 28th Congress of the Perinatal Society of Malaysia (PSM)

The ambiguity of the new world may generate fear of the consequences of our present actions. The pride of our past accomplishments could have merely seemed to be of an avarice, exhausted due to the surge of the ubiquitous COVID-19 virus, the stalling economic state, and persistent wars. Despite the initiatives of the United Nation’s sustainable developmental goal targets crafted during the pre-COVID era, the future of the world looks rather bleak with the health systems of many countries being further compromised. The hope lies in our new generation, which therein lies the need to save mothers and babies during this extraordinary time, and improve their outcomes in order to sustain the generation for the new world.

Good outcomes for mothers and babies can only be achieved by ensuring that health care professionals are knowledgeable, holistic, ethical, and safe; by ensuring continued acquisition of sound scientific knowledge, effective execution of ethically robust healthcare policies and guidelines, and by assuring equitable access to healthcare. These aims need to remain at the forefront of the policies of governments across all countries despite the present setbacks. The high healthcare burden to provide these, and the uncertainty of the future which gripped across Asia-Oceania countries, had therefore propelled the scientific committee to place the theme of “Saving Mothers and Babies for the New World” as the aim of the FAOPS 2022 congress.

This collection comprises a total of 80 abstracts that were submitted and presented at the congress that was successfully convened as scheduled.