Across Australia, more than 5,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are currently living with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) or its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF). ...

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• 2021
• December

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. ...

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• 2018
• May

As leaders, trailblazers, researchers, teachers, and social change advocates, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at Telethon Kids fought and continue to fight to bring positive, sustainable change to the health and well-being of Aboriginal children and families. ...

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• 2018
• July

A key tool in the push to achieve mandatory folate fortification came in the form of data provided by the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies (WARDA) – originally established by Professors Carol Bower and Fiona Stanley. ...

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• 2019
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The Kimberley has the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Western Australia – but through the establishment of a new community-led, research-backed project known as END RHD Communities, there’s hope this will change. ...

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• 2018
• October