National Accessibility Portal RSS Feedhttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewServicesHome.jsfNew content associated with the National Accessibility PortalUganda: Though Blind, He Read His Way to a Bank Jobhttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewContent.jsf?selectedContentId=199692&conversationPropagation=joinTHOUGH blind, he sits smugly behind his computer. He is not your ordinary person, but a visually impaired bank manager. He is Dues Turyatemba, a 27-year-old manager at Standard Chartered Bank. The last born in his family, Turyatemba was born in 1981, to peasant farmers in Kabale. He was a child like any other, but unfortunately suffered a bout of measles at the age of eight. Because it was treated at a late stage, it left him permanently blind.Zambia: How Disabled People Will Remember Levy Mwanawasahttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewContent.jsf?selectedContentId=199684&conversationPropagation=joinA LOT of people and different sections of our society including foreigners have said quite a lot about the kind of person that Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was in terms of his leadership skills. So much has been told about this gentleman. However, as persons with disabilities, we feel that the story would be incomplete if we don't add our voice.AMD and Vision Loss: Low-Luminance Study Yields a New Predictive Toolhttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewContent.jsf?selectedContentId=199676&conversationPropagation=joinJanet S. Sunness, M.D., Director of the Hoover Low Vision Services at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, and her fellow researchers have discovered a simple and inexpensive way to predict the rapid loss of visual acuity, the ability to see detail, in ?dry? AMD patients.Treatment For Hearing Loss? Scientists Grow Hair Cells Involved in Hearinghttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewContent.jsf?selectedContentId=199668&conversationPropagation=joinOregon Health & Science University scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss. The results of this research was recently published by the journal Nature. SA Paralympians vote to change outfithttp://www.napsa.org.za:80//portal/public/content/view/viewContent.jsf?selectedContentId=199660&conversationPropagation=joinA stitch in time may save nine, but a vote on Wednesday seems to have saved the South African team from having to wear the badly-stitched outfits they were originally to wear at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Beijing on Saturday. The South African Paralympic team in Beijing on Wednesday held a ballot called for by team managers, and they voted in favour of wearing the black suits the team were issued with at last week's farewell banquet.