by END RHD | Oct 23, 2018 | Media Release
Three Aboriginal brothers – the youngest only three – who are living with deadly rheumatic heart disease (RHD) will today join community representatives, health workers and medical experts at Parliament House, asking for a commitment to end the disease in...
by END RHD | May 28, 2018 | Media Release
The World Health Organisation resolution for global action to tackle rheumatic heart disease (RHD) will have significant implications for Australia, which has some of the highest rates of the disease in the world. Telethon Kids Institute is a founding partner of END...
by END RHD | Feb 27, 2018 | Media Release
END RHD welcomes the commitment of the Minister for Indigenous Health Ken Wyatt to prioritise ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia – a disease that disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Minister Wyatt’s commitment came as...
by END RHD | Feb 21, 2018 | Stories
When Liana complained of a sore foot and showed signs of a fever, her mum Margie rushed her to hospital. An X-ray of her foot revealed no obvious injury, so she was sent home and advised to take painkillers. But Margie persisted. She took Liana to her local clinic a...
by END RHD | Feb 19, 2018 | Stories
At 12 years of age, Sarah* was flown out of her community after a week of feeling unwell, breathless and with rapidly beating heart. She was diagnosed with severe rheumatic heart disease. Sarah’s RHD was so advanced that she needed open heart surgery on two of the...
