Our projects
2012
TB advocacy in Germany
We organized events in Germany to increase overall awareness about TB. These events included presentations, current efforts for TB prevention and control, and avenues for collaboration in Viet Nam.
2012
Early engagement in Viet Nam
Through the support of friends and family, we initiated a pilot project to increase case detection and reduce loss to follow-up in 3 districts of Go Vap, Ho Chi Minh City.
2014
PROPER CARE
In 2014, funding from the Global Health and Education Trust enabled us to expand TB activities from 3 to 8 wards in Go Vap, Ho Chi Minh City. In 2015, additional private sector funding expanded our community-based activities to cover all of Go Vap district. The Global Public Health Group at Janssen then generously funded PROPER CARE continuation activities.
2017
PROPER CARE Expansion
We expanded PROPER CARE from one to three districts and supported the Viet Nam National TB Programme to optimize PROPER CARE through community networks.
2017
IMPACT-TB
Funding from the European Commission allowed us to scale-up active case finding to 6 districts in Ho Chi Minh City and test two types of community healthcare worker models. We began researching health systems and patient costs.
2017
Proper Care in the Private Sector (PCPS)
FIT began engaging with private providers through PCPS project in Go Vap and District 10. These activities were focused on increasing referrals to public sector and documenting private sector TB treatment practices in Viet Nam.
2017
Zero TB Cities Viet Nam (ZTV)
In collaboration with the National TB Program, we scaled up Search-Treat-Prevent activities in 8 districts Ho Chi Minh City, 4 districts of Hai Phong and the city of Hoi An.
2018
SWEEP-TB
To facilitate access to chest X-ray and health services, we supported IRD VN in organizing 80 days of mobile chest X-ray screening in three districts of Ho Chi Minh City and island screening campaigns in Hoi An and Hai Phong.
2019
Private Pharmacy Engagement Pilot
We secured a small WPR/TDR grant to research the yield of TB in the private sector and evaluate the acceptability of private sector TB programs via an acceptability survey among pharmacists and their clients.
2019
PCPS Expansion
We received funding to scale up public-public and public-private engagement activities in Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi and Hai Phong.
2019
Ending Tuberculosis in Vietnam
FIT is a subrecipient of USAID’s Local Organizations Network (LON) award to support two work packages and the monitoring & evaluation for the Erase TB project. This project aims to increase access to TB detection and care, strengthen the capacity of local organizations, engage with private providers and accelerate declines in TB incidence in ten districts of Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City
2020
Ending Tuberculosis in Viet Nam through Regional Partnerships
We received USAID’s Local Organizations Network (LON) award to carry out four work packages under the Erase TB project. The project aims to increase access to TB detection and care, strengthen the capacity of local organizations, engage with private providers and accelerate declines in TB incidence in ten districts of Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.
2012
TB advocacy in Germany
We organized events in Germany to increase overall awareness about TB. These events included presentations, current efforts for TB prevention and control, and avenues for collaboration in Viet Nam.
2012
Early engagement in Viet Nam
Through the support of friends and family, we initiated a pilot project to increase case detection and reduce loss to follow-up in 3 wards of Go Vap, Ho Chi Minh City.
2014
PROPER CARE
In 2014, funding from the Global Health and Education Trust enabled us to expand TB activities from 3 to 8 wards in Go Vap, Ho Chi Minh City. In 2015, additional private sector funding expanded our community-based activities to cover all of Go Vap district. The Global Public Health Group at Janssen then generously funded PROPER CARE continuation activities.
2017
PROPER CARE Expansion
We expanded PROPER CARE from one to three districts and supported the Viet Nam National TB Programme to optimize PROPER CARE through community networks.
2017
IMPACT-TB
Funding from the European Commission allowed us to scale-up active case finding to 6 districts in Ho Chi Minh City and test two types of community healthcare worker models. We began researching health systems and patient costs.
2017
PROPERCARE in the Private Sector (PCPS)
FIT began engaging with private providers through the PCPS project in Go Vap and District 10. These activities were focused on increasing referrals to the public sector and documenting private sector TB treatment practices in Viet Nam.
2017
Zero TB Cities Viet Nam (ZTV)
In collaboration with the National TB Program, we scaled up Search-Treat-Prevent activities in 8 districts Ho Chi Minh City, 4 districts of Hai Phong and the city of Hoi An.
2018
SWEEP-TB
To facilitate access to chest X-ray and health services, we supported IRD VN in organizing 80 days of mobile chest X-ray screening in three districts of Ho Chi Minh City and island screening campaigns in Hoi An and Hai Phong.
2019
Private Pharmacy Engagement Pilot
We secured a small WPR/TDR grant to research the prevalence of TB in the private sector and evaluate the acceptability of private sector TB programs via an acceptability survey among pharmacists and their clients.
2019
PROPERCARE in the Private Sector Expansion
We received funding to scale up public-public and public-private engagement activities in Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi and Hai Phong.
2019
Ending Tuberculosis in Viet Nam through Regional Partnerships
A trilateral partnership with the CDC Foundation, Ministry of Health Taiwan and FIT allowed us to provide social support for Multi-drug resistant TB patients and latent TB infection testing and treatment in Ho Chi Minh City.
2020
Erase TB
We received USAID’s Local Organizations Network (LON) award to carry out four work packages under the Erase TB project. The project aims to increase access to TB detection and care, strengthen the capacity of local organizations, engage with private providers and accelerate declines in TB incidence in ten districts of Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.
2020
ZTV HOPE 5% Initiative
FIT is a subrecipient of the Zero TB Viet Nam Health economic & Operational Performance Evaluation (ZTV HOPE) initiative. This initiative focuses on systematic screening and early detection of all forms of TB including latent TB infection (LTBI) and prompt linkage to care. This allows us to continue tracing household and community contacts for active TB and testing for latent infection. This also allows our community volunteers to continue providing psychosocial support and treatment follow-up through completion. We will collect project and health system costs from national and provincial accounting systems and conduct 10 semi-structured interviews with project accounting staff to allocate cost to our activities and outputs.
2021
PPM Model 5
In 2021, FIT partnered with the NTP to support the scale-up of “PPM Model 5” activities across 10 centrally administered cities/provinces. The project focused on two strategies. Strategy 1 consisted of strengthening the screening and referral process with an emphasis on free expanded access to the Double-X diagnostic algorithm. Strategy 2 focused on collecting private sector diagnosis and treatment data without impacting existing provider activities. The long-term objective of Strategy 2 will be to improve the quality of these services in the private sector moving forward. In this project, nutritional and vitamin support packages were also provided to eligible people with TB.
2021
COVID-Inspired Initiatives to Maintain Patient Access to Care for Tuberculosis
With the COVID-Inspired Initiatives to Maintain Patient Access to Care for Tuberculosis (Co-IMPACT) project, we aim to enhance the availability, access, and uptake of patient-centered solutions for sustained TB care and prevention during periods of COVID-19 restrictions. These services will be implemented in remote border and urban hotspot provinces of Viet Nam.
2021
EndTB-Q
FIT, in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the NTP, has conducted the endTB-Q clinical trial to evaluate a novel treatment regimen for TB patients with fluoroquinolone resistance in Vietnam. We will engage the district- and commune-level public health and TB officers as well as community health workers to refer persons with rifampicin resistance to the provincial lung hospitals, support study participants in the adherence and completion of TB treatment, and trace participant contacts for the detection of additional eligible participants.
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