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...
ABOUT RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (RHD) 1. Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a consequence of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). 2. The risk of RHD is greater with repeated episodes of ARF. ...
RESOURCES ACTION TOOLKITS 500 free educational action toolkits are now available to schools and clinics who successfully register. Toolkits will be dispatched from May 2016. The educational toolkits contain: – 1 x DVD containing feature...
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...
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...
