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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....

55th South African ENT Congress - Incorporating SORSSA

31 October 2019 -4 November 2019
Report by: Nic Goncalves, ENT Registrar, University of Cape Town. The 55th annual South African ENT congress was a great success. The congress was held at the Coastlands Hotel and Convention Center in Umhlanga, Durban. The event was organised by...

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...

57th South African ENT Congress

29 October 2021 -31 October 2021 | ENT, Rhinoplasty

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

2nd ENT Masterclass® South Africa

19 April 2019 -21 April 2019 | ENT
Report by: Nicholas Goncalves, Registrar Otolaryngology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa was fortunate to host a 2nd ENT Masterclass® as a flagship for the continent of Africa. The first African ENT Masterclass® was held in Cape Town...

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)...

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...

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...

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,...