At the scientific sessions, SASPI members Nasreen Mohammed and Savvas Andronikou presented papers in the Chest and Neuroradiology categories respectively.

Among the prestigious award recipients at the congress was our very own SASPI Chairman, Professor Savvas Andronikou, who received honorary membership of the SPR.

As SASPI Vice-Chair and Secretary, respectively, Jaishree Naidoo and Vicci du Plessis represented South Africa at the annual meeting of the World Federation of Paediatric Imaging (WFPI).

The Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative study (SASPI, 2004) has provided the only community-based data on the prevalence of stroke in South Africa.

The SASPI study compared the prevalence of stroke survivors who required help with at least one activity of daily living (a marker of disability) with similar figures from Tanzania and New Zealand.

(7.) Connor MD, Thorogood M, Casserly B, Dobson C, Warlow CP, on behalf of the SASPI project team.