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Organization Contact Information

Name: FREUNDESKREIS FUR INTERNATIONALE TUBERKULOSEHILFE E.V (FIT)
Street 1: 68B Nguyen Van Troi Street, Ward 8
Street 2: Phu Nhuan District
City: Ho Chi Minh city
Province:
Post Code: 10000
Country: Viet Nam
Phone: +84 90 290 8004
Organization Email: luan.vo@tbhelp.org
Web Site: http://www.tbhelp.org/
Other Online Presence:

Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr
First Name: Luan
Last Name: Vo Nguyen Quang
Title: Chairman & CEO
Email: luan.vo@tbhelp.org
Phone: +84 90 290 8004

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Ms
First Name: Thanh
Last Name: Vu Nguyen
Title: Program Director in Viet Nam
Email: thanh.vu@tbhelp.org
Phone: +84 90 805 8246

General Information

Board Constituency: None
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
If yes, please enter your registration number: 388/CNV-HD
Organization Type - Primary: Non-Governmental Organization
Organization Type - Secondary: Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Organization Description:
Friends for International Tuberculosis Relief is a registered non-profit society in Germany. Our work is based on the vision of a world free of tuberculosis (TB).
The mission of our society is to promote the progress in the field of TB eradication and assist in inhibiting the spread of TB, especially of the resistant forms. In particular, we aim to support non-profit organizations in Germany as well as those operating overseas in developing countries in TB care and elimination. On the one hand we aspire to improve the lives of the neediest populations in developing countries. On the other hand we want to ensure through our dedicated advocacy work that the general population in Germany and other developed countries are made fully aware of the risk of drug-resistant forms of TB and thus collectively strive towards ending this threat. Ultimately we also want to make your life easier and facilitate the donation process by actively reviewing and evaluating partner organizations to ensure the donations you make are effectively used by them for TB care and control.
 
Do you know about the UNHLM declaration: Yes

Specializations / Areas of Work

Advocacy
Delivery of health services and care
Funding, including innovative and optimized approach to funding TB Care

Other Organization Information

Total number of staff in your organization: 26 - 50
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 26 - 50
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 6 - 10
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: Unknown
 
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Stop TB communications
If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who:
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: Unknown
Are you in contact with your national TB programme: Yes
Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan:
Through the aforementioned grassroots pilot intervention in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, in the past 15 months of operations on our primary performance indicators we achieved a 15%+ year-on-year improvement in case detection and a 4-fold reduction of default rate to ~1%. Moreover, on our secondary performance indicators, we reached out to ~57,600 households with around ~261,000 people. We increased the monthly number of suspects tested by an average of 46% from ~136 to ~198 in our district of operations.
 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: Germany
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)
Viet Nam

Contribution

Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below:

TB Care Delivery:
Pilot project (Project PROPER CARE) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to support NTP DOTS with active outreach, contact tracing and patient follow-up as described previously.

Drug-Resistant TB:
Pilot project (Project PROPER CARE) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to support NTP DOTS with active outreach, contact tracing and patient follow-up as described previously.

Research:
- Assessing the effectiveness and cost efficiency of targeted high-risk population screening in addition to contact tracing in urban areas of high-burden, low/middle income countries like Vietnam;
- Assessing the effectiveness and cost efficiency of financial incentives for active outreach workers, private providers and pharmacies for referral of suspects and new case detection in HCMC, Vietnam;

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
No conflicts of interest were delacred.

Application date: January 7, 2019
Last updated: March 18, 2019