Updates

Last updated: 4 March 2021

Nov 14, 2022

Pū Manawa Aotearoa Network member receives Beavan Medal

It is with immense pleasure and pride that we share with you that Pū Manawa Aotearoa Network member - Associate Professor Nigel Wilson,...

Mar 10, 2021

Poor living conditions behind increasing rheumatic fever rates in Wellington

Substandard housing in the Wellington region is being blamed for a spike in rheumatic fever, a preventable disease common in the...

Dec 8, 2020

New funding for research into detecting rheumatic heart disease

An all-new approach for the early detection of rheumatic heart disease will be developed and tested as part of a suite of new research to...

Nov 3, 2020

Charity announces funding to fight NZ's poor housing disease

In November 2020, Cure Kids, New Zealand’s leading child health organisaton, announced it would commit more than $3 million over the next...

May 5, 2020

Spike in rheumatic fever cases in Wellington

There's been a dramatic spike in the number of Wellington children in hospital with the dangerous disease rheumatic fever. RNZ Read more.

Pū Manawa
Rheumatic Fever Network
Aotearoa, New Zealand