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| Name: | Burnet Institute |
| Street 1: | 85 Commercial Rd |
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| City: | Melbourne |
| Province: | Victoria |
| Post Code: | 3004 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Phone: | 0392822111 |
| Organization Email: | info@burnet.edu.au |
| Web Site: | http://www.burnet.edu.au |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developed Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
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| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Burnet Institute is committed to reduce the suffering caused by TB and pursue the goal of a TB free world. Burnet’s TB program include: 1. An assessment of drug-resistant TB in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, partnering with the PNG National Department of Health, Australian Aid and other development partners. Burnet is a partner in a multi-stakeholder response to the major tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (RID-TB), is a project funded by the Australian Aid program via the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Burnet is responding as the technical lead in the design, monitoring and implementation of a comprehensive strategy to mitigate the TB epidemic and care for people affected. 2. Comprehensive community-based prevention and care for drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Dagon, Myanmar This project aims to implement and evaluate a model of community based drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) care to facilitate scale-up in Myanmar and other similar resource-constrained settings. 3. Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies program is a research program which is addressing the high maternal and newnorn death rates in PNG and as part of this program the impact of infectious diseases such as TB. burnet.edu.au/centres/18 4. Australasian Tuberculosis Forum Burnet is part of this initiative which aims to create closer connections between the broad range of policy makers, clinicians, patients, scientists and public health workers working for tuberculosis control and elimination in our region. tuberculosisforum.com |
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Research and Development Technical Assistance |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 100 + |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Involvement in TB control provision |
| 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: | Information on developments within the TB world |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | No |
| 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: | |
| We are in contact with the NTPs for PNG, Timor-Leste, and Myanmar. We are also a major contributor to the newly formed Australasian TB Forum, which is an association that aims to facilitate greater connection between and recognition for the broad range of policy makers, clinicians, patients, scientists and public health workers working for tuberculosis control and elimination in our region. | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Australia |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Australia China Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Fiji Lao People's Democratic Republic Papua New Guinea Thailand Zimbabwe |
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: | |
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TB Care Delivery: Comprehensive community-based prevention and care for drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Dagon, Myanmar This project aims to implement and evaluate a model of community based drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) care to facilitate scale-up in Myanmar and other similar resource-constrained settings. The project is; (i) providing all 60 existing multi drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients with treatment support for at least 9 months of the first year; (ii) reducing the burden on the health system and enabling treatment and care for more MDR-TB patients diagnosed but not currently enrolled. Key objectives are: To build the capacity of township health system in delivering and co-ordinating MDR-TB prevention and care. To deliver quality community-based MDR-TB prevention and care services through community-based treatment supporters. Improved community and health facility based TB/MDR-TB infection control, TB preventative activities and education Measure the impact, effectiveness and feasibility of the model of care through monitoring and evaluation and operational research Drug-Resistant TB: We are conducting epidemiological studies to determine the best strategies to scale up DR-TB in high burden settings. Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (RID-TB), is a project funded by the Australian Aid program via the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Through this project Burnet is responding as the technical lead in the design, monitoring and implementation of a comprehensive strategy to mitigate the TB epidemic and care for people affected. TB-HIV: We are building country capacity in TB-HIV care by conducting clinical training. Laboratory Strengthening: We are assisting the national TB program of Timor-Leste scale up TB diagnostics and implement geneXpert. New Diagnostics: Burnet received a tuberculosis (TB) biomarkers grant through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health program, an initiative which seeks to overcome persistent bottlenecks in creating new tools that can radically improve health in the developing world. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | November 22, 2013 |
| Last updated: | September 9, 2016 |