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‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

57th South African ENT Congress

28 October 2021 -31 October 2021 | ENT, Rhinoplasty
The South African National ENT congress is the highlight of the academic calendar. The three-day programme was full of exciting topics and the latest innovations in the field. Each day provided excellent educational insights provided by distinguished speakers from across...

African Head and Neck Society (AfHNS) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Head and Neck Cancers

1 March 2019
Report by: Johan Fagan MBChB, MMed; Mark Zafereo MD; Dr Paul Onakoya MBBS International management guidelines for head and neck cancers have limited value in limited resource settings due to lack of access to reliable cytology, ultrasound, CT, MRI, positron-emission...

5th East African Endoscopic Ear Surgery Course

28 November 2019 -29 November 2019 | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Neurotology, Otology

4th African Head & Neck Society Annual Conference

17 December 2020 -19 December 2020

South African Association of Audiologists Congress 2020

30 October 2020 -31 October 2020 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric

58th South African ENT / SAAA Congress

28 October 2022 -30 October 2022 | ENT, Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Paediatric ENT, Vestibular Disorders

2nd South African Aesthetic Surgery & Rhinoplasty Meeting (SAASR)

6 May 2022 -8 May 2022 | ENT, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Medicine, Rhinoplasty

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

Spotlight on Africa: paediatric ENT focus

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries 24% of the global disease burden but employs only 3% of the world’s health workers [1]. Unique workforce considerations exist in SSA including a paucity of skilled health professionals and fluctuant political climates [1,2]. Shazia Peer...

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENT
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

Audiology training in South Africa

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many different ways to become an audiologist throughout the world and it is interesting to see how different some of the training routes can be. Dr Cherilee Rutherford, a lecturer in audiology at the University of Cape Town,...