Research Programme
Research on infections of public health importance is one of the programs of the Tropical Disease Foundation. The current research focus of the TDF has been on Tuberculosis which started with the 1997 Nationwide Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, measuring the TB burden of disease in the Philippines and health seeking behavior of the patients in with TB symptoms.
The present projects include
- Operational researches on the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmatic MDR-TB Management (PMTM)
- Preserving the Effectiveness of tuberculosis Treatment with Second-line Drugs (PETTS)
- Prospective Study of Shortening the Duration of Standard Short Course Chemotherapy from 6 Months to 4 Months in HIV-non-infrected Patients with Fully Drug Susceptible, Non-cavitary Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Negative Sputum Cultures after 2 months of anti-TB treatment. (DMID Protocol Number 01-009) in collaboration with the TB Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- Demonstration Project on Effectiveness of Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) for Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Drug Susceptibility Testing (DST) in High PDR/MDR TB Burden Countries in collaboration with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnositcs (FIND)