Travel Course Conferences

SASTM 2008 EAST AFRICA TRAVEL MEDICINE CONFERENCE : SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER TO TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2008

Join us at the 2008 SASTM Travel Medicine conference in Zanzibar. This unique conference experience will offer the chance to interact with colleagues from Africa and participate in a stimulating academic programme in a magnificent setting.

The registration package includes:

return economy class airfare on the services of Air Tanzania , departure from and return to Johannesburg International Airport

all airport departure taxes but excluding the departure tax from Zanzibar

all return meet and greet airport transfers between airports and hotel

accommodation in Zanzibar on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis for conference delegates: conference registration fee, morning and afternoon teas and lunches, access to exhibitor area guided Stonetown tour

For the Dar es Salaam Add-on package:

flights included on Air Tanzania from Johannesburg on a non-stop flight to Zanzibar and travel onward to Dar es Salaam and from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar to join the conference

accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis

meet and greet airport transfers between airport and hotel in Dar es Salaam

transportation to and from venues to be visited in Dar es Salaam.

In order to secure your place at the conference a deposit of R5000 per person is required by the 28th March 2008 , with the balance due by 15th August 2008.

Visit the conference website http://www.acitravel.co.za/sastm2008/ view website to register and pay the deposit.

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ANNUAL MARGARETHA ISAACSON LECTURE

Although a diminutive figure physically, Professor Isaacson had immense stature internationally in both tropical medicine and in the broader medical academic communities. Born in the Netherlands, Professor Isaacson survived childhood internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Shrugging off a childhood whose horrors cannot even be imagined by most of us, she immigrated to Israel at the time of the state’s creation. From there she found her way to South Africa and her career in tropical medicine. Margaretha was involved in the investigation and documentation of the very first Ebola outbreak known to medical science. She remained involved in ongoing studies into this feared disease, and Africa’s other viral haemorraghic fevers.

Margaretha’s interests also included plague, and many residents of northern Namibia can thank her for being instrumental in helping to contain this disease. Prior to that she was involved in the global campaign to eradicate smallpox. At the time of her death, she was a consultant to the World Health Organization on biological warfare