MEDIA RHD on ABC TV News Zahara’s brave heart Aboriginal girl Zahara Hargraves and her grandmother have made a huge trip to the other side of the country, in the hope that surgery will give the nine-year-old girl a better life. Her potentially fatal heart...
NEWS Take Heart Africa- Guest Blog from Dr Liesl Zühlke RHD Africa Sore throats are part of normal childhood illness, no matter where in the world one lives. However for those children living in Africa, this can mean a childhood either cut short by crippling heart...
NEWS ‘The Full Moon Dance’ – Guest Blog from Christian James The Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (2nd edition) defines secondary prevention of Rheumatic Fever as...
SHORT FILMS Take Heart Africa Road to Addis The Road to Addis speaks to the Africa Union’s ‘Addis Ababa Communique on eradication of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Africa’. This short film features Professor Bongani Mayosi (South Africa), Dr John Musuku...
NEWS Guest Blog- Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy – why does it matter? Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy – why does it matter? This blog piece is written by some of the investigators on a NHMRC-funded research project looking at the impact of RHD in...
