The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa highlights Rheumatic Fever Prevention
/ 29 July 2025

The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa highlights Rheumatic Fever Prevention

Rheumatic Fever Week (RFW) is an annual campaign held in the first week of August to raise awareness about Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). Left untreated this condition can progress into Rheumatic Heart Disease and can also result in death.  ARF became a notifiable condition in South Africa in 1989—a condition that must be reported to […]