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TDF Programs

Service Programme

The TDF is a pioneer in the Private Public Mix DOTS, establishing a DOTS clinic at the Makati Medical Center, in collaboration with the Department of Health, Makati Medical Center, and the Barangay San Lorenzo.

Training Programme

By the nature of its mission and vision, the Tropical Disease Foundation provides for the opportunity to enhance human resource capability through training in various aspects of research and service in the control of infections diseases.

Research Programme

Research on infections of public health importance is one of the programs of the Tropical Disease Foundation.

Tropical Disease Foundation Selected as Site of TB Trials Consortium

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA announced the 2010-2020 TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) Rebid Awards on 18 September 2009. The Tropical Disease Foundation (TDF), Makati City, Philippines was one of twenty study sites in 10 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe welcomed by the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE), CDC. The TDF is affiliated with the TB Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA with John Johnson, MD as the Principal Investigator.

The TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) is a collaboration of clinical investigators on the prevention and treatment of TB, funded by the CDC. The mission of the TBTC is to conduct programmatically relevant clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic research concerning the diagnosis, clinical management, and prevention of tuberculosis infection and disease.

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Tropical Disease Foundation Response to Suspended Global Fund Projects

In response to the September 24, 2009 press statement of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria on its official website, TDF would like to state that as Principal Recipient, Sub-Recipient, and contractor of services for The Global Fund projects in the Philippines, it has at all times acted in good faith, basing its actions on the best interpretation of standard terms and conditions laid out in the grant agreements.

Over the six years of the Global Fund projects, TDF's expenditures had been periodically examined, reviewed, and audited by the LFA and external auditors, and eventually submitted by the LFA to TGF. In no instance had the LFA or TGF raised any alleged unauthorized expenditure during examinations of expenditures and assessments of financial management systems, until only recently.

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About TDF

The Tropical Disease Foundation (TDF) is a private, non-stock, non-profit science foundation organized in 1984. Since then, it has become a leading institution in the implementation of research, service, and training projects in infectious diseases.
The TDF has undertaken studies in pneumonia in children, Hepatitis B Virus infection, and antimicrobial resistance. In recent years, tuberculosis has [...]

History

The Tropical Disease Foundation (Foundation) is a private, non-stock, non-profit organization founded in 1984 by a group of physicians. It is supported by research grants, donations and endowments. Its objective is to undertake researches and provide training and service in the control and management of tropical infectious diseases. A Memorandum of Agreement [...]

Mission and Vision

Vision
A world with everyone enjoying the right to health
Mission
The control and prevention of infectious diseases of public health importance.
The TDF’s Thrusts

To conduct research, training and service in infectious diseases of public health importance
To enter into partnership with public and private agencies in the implementation of programs in the control of infectious diseases
To ensure technology transfer [...]

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