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	<description>This is the Official Website of the Tropical Disease Foundation, Inc.</description>
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		<title>TDF hosts MDR-TB Study Tour for Myanmar delegates</title>
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TDF hosted six delegates from Myanmar on a Study and Orientation Tour on the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (PMDT) from 5 to 9 October.
The tour included didactic sessions presenting an overview of the MDR-TB problem, its detection and treatment, drug and supplies management, program decentralization, and data recording and reporting.
Study visits were made to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1150</link>
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		<title>enews@TDF – September 2009 Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download enews@TDF – September 2009 (pdf format, 648 kb)
The September 2009 issue of enews@TDF highlights key activities of the Tropical Disease Foundation. In this issue, enews@TDF covers TDF&#8217;s celebration of its 25th anniversary.  Read about the events held at the Manila Polo Club, Forbes Park, Makati and Traders Hotel, Manila.  There are exciting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1090</link>
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		<title>The Union holds second TB training in Manila</title>
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“Fantastic!” 
This was how Dr. Christina Drummond from Médecins sans Frontières described the Second Comprehensive Course on Clinical Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, which was held at TDF’s Philippine Institute of Tuberculosis, September 21-25. 
Eighteen participants from nine countries attended the yearly training conducted by the International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases (IUATLD, or The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1085</link>
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		<title>TDF officer assists Vietnam NTP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mamel Quelapio, Executive Officer of TDF’s Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant TB (PMDT), was in Vietnam from September 29 to October 2 to provide technical assistance to the country’s National TB Program. She went to the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh as part of a Green Light Committee (GLC) monitoring mission to assess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1083</link>
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		<title>Tropical Disease Foundation Selected as Site of  TB Trials Consortium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1077</link>
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		<title>Mission and Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vision
A world with everyone enjoying the right to health
Mission
The control and prevention of infectious diseases of public health importance.
The TDF&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1053</link>
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		<title>History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1051</link>
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		<title>Tropical Disease Foundation Response to Suspended Global Fund Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Release
25 September 2009
TDF as Principal Recipient, Sub-Recipient, and contractor of services, has at all times acted in good faith, basing its actions on its best interpretation of the standard terms and conditions laid out in the grant agreement contracts for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (TGF). 
There has been no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1047</link>
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		<title>About TDF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1040</link>
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		<title>Request for Proposal for Organizational Development and Busines Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tropical Disease Foundation (TDF) is seeking Proposals from qualified organizations to provide Technical Assistance.
Offerors must prepare and submit proposals in accordance with Instructions to Offerors and Evaluation Criteria to this RFP.
Proposals (either electronic or hard paper copies) must be received no later than 12:00 Noon Manila time 01 October, 2009 at the address below. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tdf.org.ph/?p=1009</link>
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