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...
SHORT FILMS Take Heart Africa Road to Addis 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...
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...
MEDIA TAKE HEART IN THE GUARDIAN ‘I’m too young to die’: the disease of disadvantage forcing Indigenous children to have open-heart surgery An entirely preventable condition called rheumatic heart disease is leaving Indigenous children with severe...
MEDIA TAKE HEART ON AWAYE! ABC RADIO NATIONAL Take Heart: the scourge of rheumatic heart disease Having premiered in recent weeks at select screenings across the country, the award-winning documentary Take Heart works to share the health problem of rheumatic heart...
