by Helen Moorfoot | Aug 11, 2018 | Rheumatic Heart Disease, TB Program, Timorese Doctor Training program
Dr Josh presenting at DFTB conference………….. Don’t Forget The Bubbles was conceived as a way of sharing our collective knowledge. What started out as four enthusiastic players (Tessa, Ben, Henry and Andy) has grown so much bigger. With over 70...
by Doctor Jeremy | May 7, 2018 | Dr Jeremy's Blog, Rheumatic Heart Disease
April was a breakthrough month in Timor Leste with respect to one of her most crippling conditions: rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic fever is something you might read about in a Victorian romance novel, but in Timor (and northern Australia) it is a devastating...
by Helen Fairhurst | Apr 25, 2018 | Rheumatic Heart Disease
On Monday we found ourselves set up for screening at the school in Cailaco with 4 echocardiography machines and 5 cardiologists and over 700 students to scan in 2.5 days. We faced a big challenge figuring out who was going to make the long and difficult drive back to...
by Helen Moorfoot | Apr 16, 2018 | Capacity Building, On the ground, Rheumatic Heart Disease
“You can stop the progression, you can give treatment, you can stop kids from becoming unwell, getting severe rheumatic heart disease, stop them from needing heart surgery, stop them from dying,” Dr. Josh Francis Read this ABC News...
by Doctor Jeremy | Mar 8, 2018 | Mobile Clinic, On the ground, Rheumatic Heart Disease
Maluk Timor is working in conjunction with East Timor Hearts Funds . Our Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) program has been gathering speed in recent months. In December 2017, while the regular visits to Letefoho and other centres in Ermera continued, the team hosted an...
by Dr Bethany Beckett | Feb 24, 2018 | Rheumatic Heart Disease
RHD – Rheumatic Heart Disease – when people understand their bodies, it empowers them to take care of themselves physically. This is even more important if you HAVE Rheumatic Heart Disease but no external sign of this. You are asking someone to have...
by Doctor Jeremy | Dec 8, 2017 | News, On the ground, Rheumatic Heart Disease
The Rheumatic Heart Disease program, in close conjunction with partner East Timor Hearts Fund (ETHF), hit the ground running. Under the new leadership of Ricardo Flavio (Ricky), the team has been kept very busy: the delivery of penicillin to school children with...
