SHORT FILMS Acute Rheumatic Fever 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...
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...
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 Staying On Track with Secondary Prophylaxis 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...
