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Although the situations portrayed on this website are typical of the research none of the persons in this website are research patients (study participants). None of the persons portrayed in the treatment and investigative situations are minors. They have kindly given their permissions to publish the images.
Kinldy credit photographer Håvard Holme.


Student in exchange to Norway

Anele Kwitshana (back row, 4th position from the right) spent the summer in Oslo, Norway studying gender equality in the Nordic countries. Anele Kwitshana holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Human Resource Management & Media and in Oslo she got the opportunity to work with FGS research through the Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange... read more

Dedicated – Sipho Zulu

Mr Sipho Zulu has been appointed as a lecturer in the School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, he says he did not envisage that he would one day become an academic.

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