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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....

59th South African ENT/AAO-HNS/SAAA/SASLHA conference

20 October 2023 -22 October 2023
Dr Pieter van Dyk, Mr Gawie Rossouw and Mr Anirvan Banerjee enjoying the post-rugby match celebrations. Duane Mol, Otologist in Private Practice, The Ear and Eye Clinic, Johannesburg, South Africa. ‘Back to Basics’ was a great way to summarise this...

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

7th East African Endoscopic Ear Surgery Course

28 September 2023 -29 September 2023 | ENT, Otology

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

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

60th ENT Congress for the South African Society of ORL-OHNS

8 November 2024 -10 November 2024 | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Rhinology / Sinus

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)...

Africa Health

26 October 2022 -28 October 2022 | ENT
Gearing up for a return to in-person business after last year’s fully online offering, Africa Health is expected to host over 8000 people representing 56 countries. “We will bring together healthcare industry influencers and thought leaders from various disciplines to...

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,...