END RHD CRE

The RHD Endgame Strategy: The blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia #EndRHD

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

“RHD is a scary and unpredictable disease. Tackling RHD is a priority for our communities, but we need to do it in a culturally safe way.” The RHD Endgame Strategy lays the foundation to eliminate RHD in Australia. This is what it means to community.
https://t.co/nPduIOREx4

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

END RHD Communities offers empowerment & important lessons for delivering community-based recommendations of the national RHD Endgame strategy.

Read more in @anzjph, a collaboration with @MenziesResearch & supported by @BupaAustralia & @heartfoundation

https://t.co/yLovHOjD4E

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

We are delighted to share our Impact Report on the activities of the END RHD CRE, 2014 - 2021. With @nhmrc support researchers, peak bodies, communities, students & collaborators have developed a blueprint for ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia. https://t.co/47ieKiJVYb

[Rosemary Wyber @RosemaryWyber]

New @aihw data shows the burden of ARF & RHD continue to grow for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. @END_RHD collaborators have endorsed the @END_RHD_CRE RHD Endgame Strategy to change this trajectory. @NACCHOAustralia @RHDAustralia https://t.co/y7aWaa9ned

[END RHD @END_RHD]

Today's new @aihw data demonstrates the ongoing, growing, burden of acute rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. Read more: https://t.co/vfj9U6bhYe @NACCHOAustralia @RHDAustralia @END_RHD_CRE @telethonkids @AMSANTaus

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Maintaining hygiene to prevent #StrepA infection depends on access to health hardware & software. Distributing soap & other resources may be a useful adjunct to other programs, but should not be used in isolation to #endRHD 👇

https://t.co/QEZf3S8MUl

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

There is good evidence that outreach-based skin health programs can be effective in reducing the prevalence of scabies & skin sores. Programs must be complemented by community leadership & primary healthcare resourcing to be successful #endRHD

https://t.co/J2uOMmFEoe

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people living with #ARF and #RHD can benefit from peer-support programs encouraging connections and self-management of their condition. #endRHD 👇👇

https://t.co/Vo6KixvZGF

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Community awareness of the risk of #StrepA skin & throat infections is necessary to facilitate primary prevention of #ARF & #RHD. Well-developed, culturally meaningful health promotion campaigns increasing knowledge of these infections can help #endRHD

https://t.co/z3EMecIYtP

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Echocardiography screening for RHD may be considered in communities with high rates of ARF & RHD, or in the context of outbreak investigation or follow-up. Until further research occurs, mass population-level screening is not recommended to #endRHD 👇

https://t.co/CqdDGgp5YB

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Of all environmental risk factors for #StrepA infection, household crowding has the strongest evidence of association. Ensuring communities have access to healthy housing requires the leadership of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to #endRHD 👇

https://t.co/MytgsIfzD0

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

Community laundromats allowing for the washing of clothes and bedding in remote Aboriginal communities have a role to play in the prevention of illnesses such as #StrepA, #RHD & #scabies. Community consultation & program evaluation remain essential 👇

https://t.co/ylVXRrIqsi

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

The #EndgameStrategy identified that swimming pools & water parks could provide a mechanism for washing skin which appears to be acceptable and accessible in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. An important strategy to #endRHD. Read more⬇️

https://t.co/GgvErAGwlx

[The Kids Research Institute Australia @TheKids_AU]

Five years of research & collaboration by @END_RHD_CRE has culminated in a blueprint to end rheumatic heart disease in Australia for good. Now, it’s time to act. Read about their new approach in @theMJA.

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

“We have all the pieces of the puzzle, what needs to happen now is to put them together to begin the implementation phase of this work" - Dr @RosemaryWyber calls for urgent implementation of the RHD Endgame Strategy #endRHD

[MJA @theMJA]

Rheumatic heart disease endgame could save 650 lives in a decade … #openaccess in InSight+ … “We have never had the conditions aligned the way they are now. We have a freshly minted, evidence-based, co-designed strategy ready to go" https://t.co/cnlzhjOiJJ #RHD #medtwitter

[END RHD @END_RHD]

With the release of the RHD Endgame Strategy, we have the blueprint to be able to prevent the next generation of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities from bearing the physical & emotional scars of this preventable disease. We must act. #endRHD

[Rosemary Wyber @RosemaryWyber]

Wonderful to have world-leading guidelines for ARF and RHD summarised in @theMJA today - a milestone in centring culture alongside clinical considerations. A tremendous amount of work by @annapralph @djurupin10 @RHDAustralia & collaborators across the country #endrhd

[Rosemary Wyber @RosemaryWyber]

Our conclusions on how to end rheumatic heart disease, published in @theMJA today after 5 years of research, conversation and collaboration. It is more than time to make this happen. #endrhd @END_RHD_CRE @END_RHD @NACCHOAustralia

[MJA Editor in Chief @MJA_Editor]

Let’s eliminate the scourge of rheumatic heart disease in Australia. Read this new supplement in the MJA. #MedTwitter

[END RHD CRE @END_RHD_CRE]

'Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia: The evidence for a new approach,' published today by @END_RHD_CRE Investigators & collaborators in the @theMJA #endRHD

[MJA @theMJA]

MJA Supplement: Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia: the evidence for a new approach … 31 pages of #openaccess material … "the blueprint to eliminate #RHD in Australia by 2031" https://t.co/zftqDsVbBn #medtwitter