Timor Leste: healing hearts and minds
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...
Fighting RHD: 5 cardiologists: 700 students
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...
Up to 10,000 kids with RHD in Timor Leste
“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...
Maluk Timor and ETHF – together against RHD
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...
Screening shows: 3% of Timorese kids have RHD
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...