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Live broadcast from the State Library of Victoria. Associate Professor Andrew Steer, Royal Children’s Hospital discusses the film ‘Take Heart’ which is about rheumatic heart disease and he was a consultant on; the world premiere will be next Thursday at ACMI; Steer says that he researched rheumatic heart disease for some time, and says that it is a neglected and forgotten disease; he says that it is 100 percent preventable, as it is a disease of disadvantage and poverty; he says that in Northern Australia, 1-2 percent of Indigenous Australians suffer from rheumatic heart disease; Steer discusses the symptoms of rheumatic heart disease, which can start from sore throats.

Skip forward to 27:46 to hear Dr Andrew Steer on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine…