Afrinead

📢 8th AfriNEAD Conference
🗓 24–26 Nov 2026 | 📍 Serena Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Theme: Realising Disability Potentials in Africa: Opportunities & Threats to Full Inclusion in Trying Times

💡 Call for Abstracts
📅 Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
📧 Send to: [email protected]
Structure: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions (max 250 words, Times New Roman, size 12, British English).

💰 Early Bird Fees (till 30 Apr 2026):
🌍 Overseas: $280 🌐 Local/Regional: $180 | NGO: $130 | Students & Persons with Disabilities: $80

🏨 Accommodation: Serena Hotel
🔗 Info: daressalaamserena.guestreservations.com

📞 Contact: Ms. Rosemary Choma
✉️ [email protected] | WhatsApp: +255 753 678 830

Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities🎊🌺

Some more memories of the conference 🎊

Day 3 is on the roll at our conference🌺🎊

Day 2 is on the roll🎊

Our conference has officially started🌺🎊

Please note that registration for the conference is closed🎊

It's not too late to register for our upcoming conference🎊

The 7th Afrinead Conference with the theme “Positioning AfriNEAD: Rolling out Disability Research in Africa” will take place from 29 - 30 November, 1 and 3 December 2023
Venue (Hybrid): Online & ARTSCAPE, Cape Town – South Africa

The themes for this year's conference
• Children and Youth with Disabilities
• Education: Early Childhood to Tertiary
• Economic Empowerment
• Development Process in Africa: Poverty, Politics and Indigenous Knowledge systems
• Health and HIV & AIDS
•Community-based Rehabilitation
• Assistive technology
• Holistic Wellness: Sport, Recreation, Sexuality and Spirituality

For further inquires: [email protected]
To register: https://forms.office.com/r/Us7zDKJG9B

14 Days to go🎊

Register today....

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT
Advancing the conversations to address AT supply chain challenges

Date: 29 November 2023
Time: 09h00 - 12h00
Venue: TBC
Registration link:
https://forms.office.com/r/ZziAAmTn9u

Direct any queries to
Elsje Scheffler ([email protected]) Surona Visagie ([email protected])
Rebecca Matter ([email protected])

It's not too late to register for our upcoming conference🎊

The 7th Afrinead Conference with the theme “Positioning AfriNEAD: Rolling out Disability Research in Africa” will take place from 29 - 30 November, 1 and 3 December 2023
Venue (Hybrid): Online & ARTSCAPE, Cape Town – South Africa

The themes for this year's conference
• Children and Youth with Disabilities
• Education: Early Childhood to Tertiary
• Economic Empowerment
• Development Process in Africa: Poverty, Politics and Indigenous Knowledge systems
• Health and HIV & AIDS
•Community-based Rehabilitation
• Assistive technology
• Holistic Wellness: Sport, Recreation, Sexuality and Spirituality

For further inquires: [email protected]
To register: https://forms.office.com/r/Us7zDKJG9B

Meet the planning committee members for our upcoming conference 🎉

Dr Noreth Muller-Kluit

Dr Noreth Muller-Kluits is an NRF-COE-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit (DPHRU) at the University of the Witwatersrand, and an honorary affiliate of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, at King’s College London. She specialises in qualitative research, and is particularly interested in the areas of disability, community-based support, caregiver burden and reproductive health
Noreth is a qualified social worker with a decade of professional healthcare sector work and qualifications in TVET Education and Disability Studies with teaching experience in the fields of community primary healthcare and disability-related topics in education. She completed her PhD in Social Work at Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 2020, focused on the experiences of adults with acquired physical disabilities of social work support in South Africa. She is passionate about disability research and now aims to apply this knowledge to the areas of preconception health and developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)

For further inquires: [email protected]
To register: https://forms.office.com/r/Us7zDKJG9B