Birth Defects was written for healthcare workers who look after individuals with birth defects, their families, and women who are at increased risk of giving birth to an infant with a birth defect. This book is being used in the Genetics Education Programme which trains healthcare workers in genetic counselling in South Africa. It covers: modes of inheritance, medical genetic counselling, birth defects due to chromosomal abnormalities, single gene defects, teratogens, multifactorial inheritance

1. Addendum C: Down syndrome
association contact details in South Africa
Down Syndrome South Africa (National Office) Down Syndrome Association (Western Cape)
P O Box 163, 73 Van der Stel Road
Bedfordview Cape Town Oakdale
2008 Bellville
Tel: 011-615 9401 730
Fax : 011-615 9406 Tel: 021 949 0090
Email: dssaoffice@icon.co.za Fax; 021-919 8266
Website: www.downsyndrome.org.za Email: downwc@iafrica.com
Down Syndrome Association (Gauteng) Down Syndrome Association (Port Elizabeth)
Room 114, 2nd Floor, TMI c/o P O Box 163
P O Box 1159 Bedforview
Gallo Manor 2008
202 Tel: 082 893 0988
Tel: 011-484 6116 / 082 674 181
Email: info@dsag.org.za Down Syndrome Association (Amatola)
P O Box 8030
Down Syndrome Assocation (KwaZulu-Natal) Nahoon, East London
P O Box 28307 241
Malvern, Durban Tel: 043 743 6626 / 072 276 1443
4001
Tel: 031-464 205 Down Syndrome Association South West
Email: downskzn@iafrica.com (Gauteng)
P O Box 495
Down Syndrome Association (Pretoria / Lenasia
Tshwane) 1820
P O Box 16677 Tel: 082 671 5057 / 011 433 4886
Lyttelton Fax: 011 84 381 / 0866 714 039
0140
Tel: 012-662 0462
Email: petra@downs.org.za

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Down Syndrome Support (Cape) Down Syndrome Association (Witbank)
S8, Outpatients Department c/o P O Box 163
Red Cross Children’s Hospital Bedfordview
Klipfontein Road 2008
Rondebosch Tel: 083 732 6189
7700
Tel: 021 689 119
Email: Valerie.Hoy@uct.ac.za
Down Syndrome Association (Free State)
Bloemfontein
P O Box 414
Bultfontein
9670
Tel: 01 444 1867 / 082 377 61
Email: gnpddcr.MD@mail.uovs.ac.za