Budget boost to fight rheumatic fever 
Stuff.co.nz
An in-school throat swabbing programme will be part of a $24 million campaign to reduce rheumatic fever. The Government will put an additional $12 million into tackling rheumatic fever rates. A new school throat swabbing programme will be part of a ...
Budget 2012: Taking on rheumatic fever New Zealand Doctor Online
Extra funding to eradicate rheumatic fever MSN NZ News
Rheumatic fever fight gets extra $12m 3News NZ

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Rheumatic fever programme to be extended 
Radio New Zealand
This month's Budget will double the money spent on swabbing children with sore throats in an effort to eradicate rheumatic fever. Prime Minister John Key and Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia made the announcement on Wednesday at Holy Family ...
Throat swabbing in South Auckland schools to combat rheumatic fever Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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GP says rheumatic fever funding much needed 
Radio New Zealand
A Kaitaia Maori GP says an extra $12 million in the Budget for rheumatic fever prevention is welcome, but as long as children have to scavenge for food it will never be a magic bullet. The Government is funding a new throat-swabbing programme in ...
New funding to reduce rheumatic fever Newstalk ZB

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Tappahannock community rallies behind 9-year-old battling rheumatic fever 
Northern Neck News
I wanna ride it,? exclaimed China Collins, 9, of Center Cross, who suffers from rheumatic fever, during an April 28 fundraiser held in her honor at T-Town Tack in Tappahannock. Above, she gets her turn. And on April 28, standing in the midst of a ...

 

Project takes aim at rheumatic fever 
Northern Advocate
Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia (centre), looks on as Ketilia Samson, 7, opens wide for a throat swab, taken by Margaret Morehu, Ki a Ora Ngatiwai rheumatic fever prevention co-ordinator. Photo / John Stone It's a Third World disease linked to ...

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Olympic torch honour for Bucknall marathon man 
StaffsLive
Philip Greer, 55, from Bucknall, contracted rheumatic fever, paralysing him from the waist down, when he was six and was expected to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. However, within two years of the diagnosis, he started to feel better and ...

 

More cash to combat 'Third World' disease 
Gisborne Herald
TAIRAWHITI is one of the districts to benefit from a $12 million boost to the national campaign against rheumatic fever. This region has the highest rates in New Zealand for children admitted to hospital for the first time with rheumatic fever.

 

Sharples hints at Budget boost for Maori 
3News NZ
He cited an environment programme in schools, funding for treatment of cancer, funding for tackling rheumatic fever and funding for those with disabilities. "And there are other things... I've got education and corrections things, but it is budget ...

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Govt Still Committed to the Palestinian Independence 
AllAfrica.com
The heart specialist said that rheumatic fever was also associated with heart problem and that the mission in Zanzibar would include organizing capacity building seminars for Zanzibar medical doctors. Israel has so far treated 300 Zanzibari children ...

 

Hungry kids scavenge pig slops 
Stuff.co.nz
O'Sullivan said an additional $12 million the government was funding toward the prevention of rheumatic fever was a welcome move, but that was only one symptom of the poverty children were facing. "If children are that deprived of food it's going to ...

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