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Rheumatic heart disease funding needed to help Indigenous communities

Curtis and Trey Brown travelled from Maningrida, NT, to Canberra in 2018 to raise political awareness of rheumatic heart disease. (Supplied: Josh Francis)

A dramatic increase in funding will be needed to eradicate a disease which stems from poverty in Australia's Indigenous community, according to a leading paedeatrician.

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