When you treat strep throat,
you prevent Rheumatic Heart Disease.
Awareness
You can’t fix something if you don’t know about it. And most people do not know that untreated strep throat can lead to serious heart disease and even total heart failure.
Stop The Strep works to educate people around the world about the connection between strep throat and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). We work to provide easy access to tools that diagnose and treat strep throat. And we work to provide accurate data to help guide long-term decision-making that will end heart disease caused by strep.
When the whole community understands the problem, we can work together to solve it.
Strep throat is easy to detect and inexpensive to treat.
Even so, it is a tricky problem, because if you don’t diagnose and treat strep when it first appears, the symptoms seem to disappear on their own.
However, just because the symptoms can’t be felt , it doesn’t mean the strep is gone. Strep can be in a child’s body for months or years, slowly creating more and more damage.
Stop The Strep works to provide tools to quickly detect and treat strep throat.
Diagnosis & Treatment
Facts & Proof
In places where Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is most present, there is a surprising lack of information about the early stage of the disease – strep throat.
To end RHD, you must stop the strep, and to do this, you need current and accurate data. Stop The Strep gathers information at every step of the strep disease progression, beginning with strep throat itself.
When we show the powerful impact of diagnoses and treatment efforts, and that these efforts prevent far greater expenses to treat life-threatening RHD, everyone in the community benefits.