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World Vitiligo Day Meeting Schedule
Durban: Westville Hospital
7 Spine Road
Westville
3630
Contact: Thoyada Meakhan
Tel: 031 265 1505
Cape Town:
Tygerberg Hospital
Contact: Dr Suretha Kannenberg
Johannesburg:
Contact: Dr Lushen Pillay
To confirm:
Polokwane
East London
Participate in Word Vitiligo Day meetings in any of a variety of ways:
Give a talk.
Bring a family member or friend.
Form a support group.
Write a poem.
Sing a song.
Arrange an interview for a magazine or newspaper
Talks to kids in school about vitiligo.
Write an article for the MelanoSite newsletter.
Drive around with your van with a vitiligo awareness message.
Come up with your own ideas.
Email your ideas to the VSSA
THE VITILIGO SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA IS YOUR SOCIETY
TELL US WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF IT!
EMAIL: INFO@VITILIGOSOCIETY.CO.ZA
The VSSA is now on instagram
Thank you for attending the VSSA Symposium on Phototherapy at the Dermatology Congress in Cape Town.
Now get ready for Congress 2020 in Pretoria
Theme: Dermatology into the Future
27-30 August 2020
CSIR Pretoria
VITILIGO SCHOOL CAMPAIGN - CLICK HERE TO VIEW POSTER
Poster now available in English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Tswana, French and Arabic
New Page: An arabic translation of the Vitiligo School Campaign poster has just been added. The page was translated by Dr Marwa Adballah from university of Egypt. Please fee free to download, print and distribute the poster in any language of your choice.
If you are able to translate the poster into any other indigenous language, or in fact in any other language, please contact the VSSA.
Find a Dermatologist
View list of dermatologists interested in vitiiligo
Practices are listed in alphabetical order according to province.
Calling on all International Vitiligo Societies, Organisations and Associations
please hook up with us by clicking here
International
I want to support the initiative to declare June 25th World Vitiligo Day
Our two invited overseas speakers for the Dermatology congress in Johannesburg are Dr Mauro Picardo from Rome, Italy and Dr Dhilip Kachhawa from Jodpur India.The congress is for dermatologists only but new developments will be reported in the VSSAs newsletters and the various platforms of the VSSA.