Posts Tagged ‘patient’
Patients share their stories with Team VIVA!
In support of Pneumonia Awareness Week, patients are joining forces with doctors nation-wide to heighten community awareness of pneumococcal pneumonia, an often fatal lung infection. Team VIVA! has taken some time out to hear their stories: Single mother, Melody, 38, from Melbourne, recently contracted pneumonia from her eight-year-old daughter. “I’m young, fit and healthy with…
Read MoreA first for Progeria
VIVA! and GlobalHealthPR partner Spectrum Science’s involvement in the “Find the other 150” campaign has taken another step forward as another young girl was discovered living with Progeria in Johannesburg. We’d like to take a minute to introduce a First Lady, Miss Ontlametse Phalatse… Ontlametse is a special young girl in many ways: she is…
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