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01 March 2023 | Story Kian Terwin | Photo Supplied
bone marrow drive
From the left: Dr M Moller, Dr C Steyn (Clinical Haematology), Dr N Motloung, Dr J Malherbe (Head of Clinical Unit: Clinical Haematology), Dr A van Marle (Haematopathologist), Dr E Bowen, Dr Q van Staden, and Dr T Gutu
Every 72 minutes, someone in South Africa is diagnosed with a blood cancer or blood disorder such as leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, and sickle cell disease. Often, a blood stem-cell transplant from a matching donor is their only hope for a cure.

The University of the Free State, in association with PathCare and DKMS Africa, will run a bone marrow donation registration drive from 1 to 3 March 2023. With this drive, we hope to set new records in bone marrow donation registration. The process is a simple, non-painful swab in your mouth and filling out a form that will take about two minutes.  

During this drive, blood stem-cell donors will be recruited for the DKMS Africa registry, so that patients in need of a life-saving stem cell transplant can find matching donors. Everyone (students and staff) is welcome and will be rewarded with chocolate for their registration. In addition, our goal is also to establish a community of well-informed and committed stem-cell donors.

The UFS hosted its first donor recruitment drive in October 2022, recruiting 434 donors. This was record-breaking, since other universities did not reach this number of registrations. We aim to surpass the previous year’s registrations, since recruitment will take place on the Bloemfontein Campus and in the Faculty of Health Sciences. 

The drive will take place on the following days:
Wednesday 1 March 2023:  Thakaneng Bridge 
Thursday 2 March 2023:   Thakaneng Bridge 
Friday 3 March 2023:  Francois Retief Foyer 

Let us fight THE FIGHT AGAINST BLOOD CANCER and other BLOOD DISORDERS. Come and register as a blood stem-cell donor. The more donors we have on the registry, the greater the chance of helping people who need a life-saving stem cell transplant. TOGETHER WE CAN DO MORE.

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UFS strengthens ties with Mexican university
2010-05-11

 At the First Joint Subcommittee on Technical, Scientific and Technological Co-operation were, from left: Prof. Nahum Marban-Mendoza, Chairperson of the Department of Agroparasitology, UACH; Dr Gisela Pena-Ortega, Director of the Office for International Affairs and Academic Exchange, UACH; Prof. Wijnand Swart, Director of UFS Strategic Academic Cluster 4: Technologies for Crop Industries in Semi-arid regions; and Dr Victor Pinto, Department of Parasitology, UACH.
Photo: Mercedes Cuenca


In 2006, the University of the Free State (UFS) signed an institutional agreement with the Autonomous University of Chapingo (UACH) in Mexico. This made the UFS the first South African academic institution to establish scientific relations with Mexico.

It was for this reason that Prof. Wijnand Swart, Director of the UFS Strategic Academic Cluster 4: Technologies for Crop Industries in Semi-arid regions, was invited to participate in the First Joint Subcommittee on Technical, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held recently in Mexico City. During his visit, Prof. Swart secured the working relationship between the UFS and the UACH.

During the first meeting of the Mexico-South Africa Bi-national Commission, the Mexican Foreign Secretary and Minister of Foreign Affairs and South African Minister for International Relations and Cooperation signed a joint statement. The statement, “Mexico and South Africa: Towards a Priority Relationship”, together with a Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement, will lay the foundations for monitoring existing collaboration and promote new actions between institutions in Mexico and South Africa.

Prof. Swart spent the remainder of his stay in Mexico presenting lectures to staff and students at the UACH on integrated pest management and challenges facing South African agriculture. He also engaged in discussions with Dr Gisela Pena-Ortega, Director of the UACH Office for International Affairs and Academic Exchange, about the establishment of a staff and student exchange programme with the UFS.
 

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