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Please note that the VSSA does not provide online consultations or specific advice about your vitiligo. For this, you would need to see your dermatologist or GP
Welcome to the VitiligoSociety of South Africa
Vitiligo in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
Please read this blog by Prof John Harris from UMASS addressing the concerns that vitiligo patients have in the current climate of the Corona virus pandemic - posted on 14 March 2020.
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Thank you for attending the World Vitiligo Day commemoration on 27 June 2020.
Participate in this clinical study on vitiligo by Dr T Ngcungcu and Dr L Pillay
JOB SEEKERS / JOB PROMOTION/ SEEKING A LIFE PARTNER
The VSSA supports people living with vitiligo and will happily promote your business or your job seekers advertisement or your search for a life partner on its website.
Looking for online cooking classes: visit Chef Rumbie, who recently participated in the World Vitiligo Day Virtual meeting. Click here
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
The Vitiligo Society of South Africa (VSSA) wishes to inform your that the 2020 combined Dermatology Congress of South Africa has been postponed to 19-22 August 2021, due to the Cornonavirus pandemic.
The VSSA wishes you well during this uncomfortable time and hopes that it won't be long before normality resumes.
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. The same speakers will grace our congress in 2021.
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