Films - Take Heart

Important Health Message – Acute Rheumatic Fever

SHORT FILMS This is a health warning. Right now, many of our children and young males and females in our community are getting Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease. This is serious. Rheumatic Fever can damage our heart. Watch out for children and young males...

Take Heart Africa Road to Addis

SHORT FILMS 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 (Zambia) and Dr Liesl Zühlke (South Africa)....

Secondary Prophylaxis

SHORT FILMS Part of the reason Liddy is having his third operation is due to him not keeping on track with his strict program of monthly antibiotic medication. This treatment is called Secondary Prophylaxis. Every 3 to 4 weeks children and young adults who have known...

Acute Rheumatic Fever

SHORT FILMS Did you know that sometimes skin infections and throat infections can cause Rheumatic Fever. Also some children don’t go to doctors as often as they should. Often Rheumatic Fever is detected very late because patients, doctors and nurses are not aware of...

Stan Grant Personal Statement on Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD)

SHORT FILMS “Indigenous people still suffer far more greatly than any other section of the Australian population and Rheumatic Heart Disease is an extraordinary example of this.” ~ Mr Stan Grant "Closing the gap has been a headline. It's been a slogan, that...

RHD Action United to End Rheumatic Heart Disease

SHORT FILMS Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) starts innocently enough, as a mere sore throat or an infected skin sore, but it escalates worryingly quickly. Carlisa, who suffers from RHD, says: "My legs started to swell and the rate of my heart was going up, like really...

TAKE HEART: Official Trailer

SHORT FILMS Rheumatic Heart Disease, or RHD, is a largely invisible disease that threatens the lives of over 30 million children and young people around the world. Take Heart: The Quest to Rid the World of Rheumatic Heart Disease lifts the lid on this life-threatening...

What is Rheumatic Heart Disease?

SHORT FILMS What is Rheumatic Heart Disease? Rheumatic Heart Disease, or RHD, starts in children as an infection from a common sore throat and possibly infected skin sores. And it can end in open heart surgery, stroke, heart failure or premature death. RHD...

Closing the Gap on Rheumatic Heart Disease

SHORT FILMS Whose problem is this to solve? To Close the Gap, health care will need to be delivered to at-risk children, adolescents and young people where and when they need it, social housing conditions will have to be improved to reduce overcrowding, and...

Rheumatic Fever Prevention in New Zealand

SHORT FILMS Rheumatic Fever Prevention In New Zealand, the disease is largely confined to the upper North Island. The Indigenous Maori and Pacific Islander populations are predominantly affected. Together, this group comprises almost one third of New Zealand’s...

Staying On Track with Secondary Prophylaxis

SHORT FILMS Thankfully, most young people with Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) won’t need a mechanical heart valve replacement, which means they also won’t need to take Warfarin everyday. For most young people with RHD, like Trenton from Tiwi Islands, the important...

Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy

SHORT FILMS The best way to make sure a woman with RHD has a healthy pregnancy for her and her baby is early diagnosis and cardiac review, collaborative care and communication with family, health workers, maternity and cardiac services. Pregnancy can provide a...

Quest for the Holy Grail RHD Vaccine

SHORT FILMS The so-called Holy Grail of RHD prevention - a Group A Strep vaccine. But this dream is proving difficult to realise. "It's clearly a disease which is associated with social deprivation. I don't think anybody denies that that is the most significant...

Strep: Group A Streptococcal Infection

SHORT FILMS Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is 100% preventable. Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) is caused by the Group A Streptococcus bacteria (or Strep germs). What is Strep: Group A Streptococcal Bacteria? "The strep bug is an old bug that we've known about for a long...

Broken Hearts – RHD Surgery

SHORT FILMS "A sore throat in a child must not be neglected, must not be ignored. Because if it is caused by strep it could indeed lead to heart disease. If the child gets a penicillin injection it stops it, almost abolishes it. The reason we have not been...

Take Heart Official Teaser

SHORT FILMS Q: What disease starts as a sore throat in children and ends with open heart surgery, heart failure, permanent disability, stroke and premature death? Clue: It kills 1000 people every day, affects over30 million children and young people and...