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Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme

12 August 2016

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Rheumatic fever Māori Community Fund

Six North Island District Health Boards are delivering a new Rheumatic Fever Māori Community Fund to support Māori community-based initiatives to increase awareness and help prevent rheumatic fever.

Find out more: $1 million rheumatic fever fund for targeted Māori communities

Contact: David_Szabo@moh.govt.nz

2016 Rheumatic Fever Awareness Campaign

Have you seen our Stop Sore Throats Hurting Hearts Facebook page?

We’re posting regularly as part of this year’s Rheumatic Fever Awareness Campaign. If you can share this page with your networks or friends, we would appreciate it!

Also, if your group or organisation has a local rheumatic fever prevention event you’d like us to promote, send it through to the Health Promotion Agency’s Sarah Bain (S.Bain@hpa.org.nz) so we can look at sharing it on our Facebook page.

Health Promotion Agency rheumatic fever resources

All 2015 resources and the latest 2016 resources are now available for you to promote rheumatic fever awareness in your community. Many of these resources can also be used on social media.

The 2016 Rheumatic Fever Awareness Campaign will continue to run until the end of September.

Contact: Marama_Ellis@moh.govt.nz

My brother almost died - it started with a sore throat

Hot off the production line…

The final new resource produced for the 2016 Rheumatic Fever Awareness Campaign was released earlier this week.

Filmed in Porirua, this educational video has been developed to help deepen understanding of how a sore throat can lead to rheumatic fever.

Left: Video presenter Tofiga Fepulea'i busy learning his lines.
Right: Siafega Fabian, who was diagnosed with rheumatic fever when she was nine, and Porirua GP Dr Sarah Sciascia.

HYPE 2016 reaches out to high school students about rheumatic fever

Building the HYPE squad in 2016 has been a key priority for the Rheumatic Fever team across Auckland.

HYPE stands for Health Priority Youth Event focusing on a key health priority for young people in the Auckland region. It’s a movement aimed at continuing to grow strong, resilient young people and help them to achieve their potential.

Young Aucklanders learning to “fight the fever”

E-learning available

Have you completed the rheumatic fever e-learning course?

The course is free and is aimed at primary care nurses, public health nurses and community health workers working with families whose children are at risk of developing rheumatic fever.

The course may also be useful for locum general practitioners, general practitioners and pharmacists.

Contact: Niki_Stefanogiannis@moh.govt.nz

Save the date: Information-sharing workshop

On Thursday October 20 we will host staff from the 11 high-incidence District Health Boards (DHBs) in a joint information-sharing workshop about rheumatic fever prevention.

This workshop will be in Auckland and we’ll discuss what’s happening in DHB communities, what's working well and how we can support each other in rheumatic fever prevention activities.

An invitation and more information will be sent to DHBs soon.

Contact: Jo_Muschamp@moh.govt.nz

Delivering rheumatic fever prevention education the Pacific way

Auckland Pacific church groups are using music, drama and creativity to raise awareness of how to prevent rheumatic fever:

Delivering rheumatic fever prevention education the Pacific way

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