Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Urology
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
Water from two poverty-stricken communities in the Limpopo Province as well as water from a source dam in Gauteng was found to be contaminated with estrogenic chemicals. This has far-reaching implications for environmental health, and animal and human reproductive health.
Contact person: Dr NH Aneck-Hahn.
The environmental organochlorine pesticide DDT was found to have effects on male reproductive parameters. Seminal volume, sperm morphology and motility negatively correlated with serum DDE levels of non-occupationally exposed men.
Contact person: Prof C de Jager.
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