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4th Conference, 27 September 2024

Empowering Caregivers: A Journey of Giving, Receiving and Valuing Care
Theme EAAC4

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EAAC4 will now be held on Friday 27 September 2024 via Zoom during Stripes Week.

The EAA is a young Africa-wide alliance of epilepsy associations that was formed in December 2019.
Each year, the EAA hosts a conference to bring together people working to defeat epilepsy in the African continent and interested parties from across the world. In 2020, the EAA planned as a high-level dialogue meeting that became its first conference.

This year, the conference will be held during Stripes Week/Africa Epilepsy Week which runs from 23-27 September. Stripes Week is an annual event promoted by the Epilepsy Alliance Africa (EAA). It is celebrated globally during the 3rd week of September each year to accelerate epilepsy awareness. During Stripes Week, we mobilise people for epilepsy awareness throughout the world. What is the easiest thing you could do during the week? Wear or use zebra colours. Anything with stripes or zebra colours. A hat, scarf, headcover, shirt, dress, blouse, trousers, bag, belt, t-shirt and tie or cushion or hair.

Through this conference, we hope to bring people together to learn about the work that is being done by advocates and professionals, hear from experts and policymakers and more importantly hear stories of resilience and how people with epilepsy and their families are being impacted.

Who can present, talk or share experience: academics, clinicians, professionals, social workers, organisations, advocates and people with experience of living with epilepsy or caring can all submit an abstract.

Main themes:
1. Medication, treatment and facilities
2. Advocacy, social stigma, myths & marginalisation
3. Rural services
4. Research and publishing
5. Empowerment and education of young people with epilepsy
6. Training and education
7. Policy and advocacy
8. Collaboration and funding
9. Psychological issues
10. Experiences
11. Tele-health, tele-medicine or tele-services

12. Contributing to Africa even with epilepsy

AFTER THE CONFERENCE CERTIFICATES WILL BE ISSUED TO PRESENTERS AND PARTICIPANTS TO CLAIM CPD POINTS

The timeline is as follows:

Setting of Organising Committee	December 2023
Theme selection	Theme: Empowering Caregivers: A Journey of Giving, Receiving and Valuing Care
Call for presenters and stories	March 2024 Click this link to submit your topic, abstract or summary
Final program	May 2024
Conference	27 September 2024