SHORT FILMS Important Health Message – Acute Rheumatic Fever 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...
SEE IT Around 35 Take Heart events are taking place around the country to support National Close the Gap Day 2019. For the latest and most accurate event information please visit the Take Heart Facebook page. You can also view all the public and private Close the Gap...
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...
NEWS ARF and RHD Guest Blog by Vicki Wade, Cultural Lead, National Heart Foundation, Australia. There are over 15.6 million people worldwide living with Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) and another 1.9 million with a history of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) that have not...
SHORT FILMS RHD Action United to End Rheumatic Heart Disease 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...
