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The PASCAR-driven( Pan-African Society of Cardiology) ASAP programme was launched in 2005 at a meeting in the Drakensberg and the Drakensberg declaration was published in 2006. This meeting brought together interested cardiologists and physicians from all over Africa dealing with rheumatic heart disease on a daily basis in an attempt to develop a method to eradicate rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease using a multi-pronged approach.