Nature Reviews Cardiology Research Awards 2017: Joint PASCAR, Sudan Heart Society and PAFCIC Congress

  • 17 October 2017 | Nature Reviews Cardiology Research Awards 2017: Joint PASCAR, Sudan Heart Society and PAFCIC Congress

PASCAR Small Grant Award PROGRESS REPORT – Zimbabwe (August & September 2017)

  • 10 October 2017 | PASCAR Small Grant Award PROGRESS REPORT – Zimbabwe (August & September 2017)

WHF PASCAR RHD Small Grant Winner Announcement

  • 28 July 2017 | WHF PASCAR RHD Small Grant Winner Announcement

Ahmed Kathrada: exhibit A of the values imbued in South Africa's Freedom Charter

  • 26 April 2017 | Ahmed Kathrada: exhibit A of the values imbued in South Africa's Freedom Charter

David Everatt, Caryn Abrahams. Ahmed Kathrada: exhibit A of the values imbued in South Africa’s Freedom Charter. Article in The Conversation, March 2017

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Rheumatic Heart Disease Congress, Cairo, Egypt: from Molecules to the Global Community

  • 25 January 2017 | Rheumatic Heart Disease: from Molecules to the Global Community

Advanced Cardiovascular Nursing Programme, Central Chest Institute Thailand

  • 21 December 2016 | Advanced Cardiovascular Nursing Programme, Central Chest Institute Thailand

The program involves receiving advanced training in the cardiology department for the period of 4 weeks. The training took place at the cardiac catheterization laboratory, where they will schedule a number of complex PCI procedures including CTOS, Rotablation procedures, Intravascular Ultrasound, left main PCI, etc.

Regina Mafwila (Windhoek Central Hospital) & Maria Moyo (Roman Catholic Hospital) from Namibia attended the programme

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The heart of Africa: succeeding against the odds

  • 31 October 2016 | The heart of Africa: succeeding against the odds

The heart of Africa: succeeding against the odds

South Africa and other areas of sub-Saharan Africa have in the past 20 years undergone rapid demo-graphical changes, largely due to urbanization and changes in lifestyle. This rapid change has led to a marked increase in specific cardiac conditions, such as hypertensive heart disease and coronary artery disease (with the highest prevalence in the middle-aged population), in conjunction with a range of other heart diseases, which are historically common in Africa—eg, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and unoperated congenital heart disease.

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PASCAR Heart Failure Task Force

  • 28 September 2016

PASCAR & Tanzania Cardiac Conference, Dar Es Salaam 20-22 April 2016

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PASCAR First PASCAR First All Africa Cardiac Imaging Conference (Khartoum, Sudan)

  • 03 June 2016 | PASCAR First All Africa Cardiac Imaging Conference (Khartoum, Sudan)

In February 2016 Prof. Karen Sliwa participated as an invited speaker at the PASCAR First Cardiac Imaging conference, which took place jointly with the Sudan Heart Society’s Fourth International Conference, in Khartoum, Sudan.

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TAKE HEART AFRICA "Road to Addis"

  • 01 June 2016

The Road to Addis speaks to the Africa Union’s ‘Addis Ababa Communique on eradication of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Africa’.

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