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Achievements
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formation, FARR has played a leading role in helping to identify FAS as a
major threat to the quality of life for more than a million disadvantaged
South Africans.
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| In association with
leading local and international academic and medical institutions, the
Foundation has also helped to establish South Africa as a global
"centre of excellence" in the field of scientific and medical
research into FAS.
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| FARR has scored
several "medical firsts" in the world, including the development
of video metric, three-dimensional camera techniques to assess children with
FAS. FARR was also the first organisation in the world to demonstrate a
genetic protection factor (a polymorphism of the ADH 2 gene) against FAS.
Through the Foundation's fellowship and scholarship programme, FARR has
enabled two leading medical professionals in South Africa to attain unique
qualifications in the field of medicine. In January 1999, Dr Nathaniel
Khaole became FARR's first fellow to study medical genetics and birth
defects as they relate to FAS. In October 2002, Dr Louisa Bhengu became the
first South African to qualify as a sub-specialist in medical genetics.
Dr Andre van der Westhuizen has followed in Dr Bhengu’s footsteps and is
currently training in the sub-speciality of medical genetics.
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Contact
Information
Telephone:
+27 (0) 21 686 2645 /6/7
Fax:
+27
(0) 21 685-7034
Postal address
37 Thornhill Road, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa
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: Leana Olivier
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