welcome

The Joint World Congress on Stroke scheduled to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, October 26-29, 2006 is a unique congress for many reasons.

It will be co-hosted by the International Stroke Society, the Mediterranean Stroke Society and Southern African Stroke Foundation.

This, for the first time, is an International Stroke Congress that hopes to attract international participation to this awakening continent. South Africa in general and Cape Town in particular is recently attracting many congresses as well as many other business initiatives. We hope that our joint event will provide an excellent opportunity for many European, Australian, Far Eastern and American neurologists to visit South Africa, while at the same time bringing their expertise to this location.

In addition, we wish to attract many people from other African Countries.

We plan Satellite Symposia that will be complementary to the main topics of the Congress. The Congress itself will have plenary sessions in the morning, and in the afternoon one parallel timeslot (some of them held in French for doctors from French speaking African Countries). There will be two Satellite Symposia per day.

Yours sincerely,