SHORT FILMS What is Rheumatic Heart Disease? 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...
SHORT FILMS Closing the Gap on Rheumatic Heart Disease 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...
SHORT FILMS Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy 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...
SHORT FILMS Take Heart Official Teaser 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...
NEWS Take Heart Together We Are Stronger It is with great delight that we announce the Cardiac Society for Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) has officially joined the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the World Heart federation as major sponsors of Take...
