NEWS

 Dear colleagues,

This year came with lots of promises and success. AFPNA is growing in leaps and bounds. We are recording successes in prevention and management of renal disorders. Our membership strength is increasing; we encourage new members to join.

Thanks to Ira and Matthias; AFPNA will forever remain grateful to Prof Ira Greifer who was behind its birth in 2000. His vision, support and tireless effort brought this diverse and difficult continent into affiliation with IPNA

Prof Matthias Brandis continued his effort with an unflinching zeal and has been a solid rock and support behind AFPNA, hence the steady developments within the association. May they be forever blessed. Our big thanks too to Prof Bahia Moustafa who helped them achieve the birth of AFPNA.

EVENTS

•         Annual Paediatric Nephrology Teaching Course whose maiden launching took place in Lagos in 2006  held in Lagos, from 18th to 20th Feb, 2008. We are most grateful for IPNA support

  v     We are looking forward to an exciting 4th AFPNA Congress in Nairobi in 2009.

v      Dr. Doris Kinuthia is already setting things in motion for this important Congress.

v      It is our hope that more African countries will participate.

      •         South Africa:

•         Early March - Dr Errol Gottlich attended the p/n refresher course at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

•         2) 17- 21 March p/ns from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban attended and presented papers at the International Pediatric Transplantation Congress in Cancun, Mexico .

•         April, Dr Priya Gajjar attended the World Congress of Nephrology in Rio and the Nephrokids Workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At the former, a geneticist- Dr Lindsay Lambie from Johannesburg presented the Gauteng experience with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney disease

•         Errol Gottlich and Prof Peter Thomson have opened the Morningside Childrens Kidney Treatment Centre in Sandton and jointly monitored a p/n journal club evening for Gauteng paediatricians in June. The monthly journal club/problem cases for p/ns continues at the centre mentioned above

•         5) June-July Prof Mignon McCulloch and Dr Mary Morgan attended and presented at the Int Critical Care Congress in Europe

•         In Johannesburg, Dr.Cecil Levy passed his Fellowship exams in May &Dr Hemed Said completed his training in Johannesburg

•         In Durban there are negotiations with Adcock Ingram CC to train nurses for PD and Haemodialysis. There are plans  to commission paediatric CAPD at IALCH  

•          Presently Durban is planning to host the South African Transplant Society Congress meeting at Sibiya. 

•         MMScience  student is planning a study on the Pathogenesis of HIV nephropathy - Impact of HAART in SA children.

•         Annual  Paediatric Nephrology Teaching Course whose maiden launching took place in Lagos in 2006  held in Lagos, from 18th to 20th Feb, 2008. We are most grateful for IPNA support

  v     We are looking forward to an exciting 4th AFPNA Congress in Nairobi in 2009.

v      Dr. Doris Kinuthia is already setting things in motion for this important Congress.

v      It is our hope that more African countries will participate.

       •         South Africa:

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New website.

 Our new website is http://www.afpna.org/. Pls, visit us and make your input. Annual membership dues of $35.00 US can be paid on line. Apart from our dues we need more funding to run a better Secretariat and pursue  our   program successfully. You can reach us on how to make your contribution on the web or contact Professors F. Eke or M McCulloch.