Control Of Neglected Tropical Diseases In The Pacific: Integration Of Programs To Increase Their Impact
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,499,801.00
Summary
Our goal is to improve programs to control neglected tropical diseases, diseases of poverty common in Australia's neighbours: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Our partners are supporting the Ministries of Health in these countries to implement integrated programs to better control these diseases. Our multidisciplinary research will use improved diagnostics, spatial mapping, health systems, social science and health economics to evaluate this integrated approach to disease control.
Delivering Precision Diagnosis To Patients With Mitochondrial Disease: Using Digital Technologies To Enhance The Delivery Pathway To Provide An Accurate Genetic Diagnosis For Patients With Mitochondrial Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,273,553.00
Summary
Mitochondrial disease (MD) is the most common inherited metabolic condition. MD can be diagnosed by using whole genome sequencing (WGS) and enables treatment and accurate family planning. We will create a web-base platform to support the diagnosis and treatment of patients with or suspected to have MD. Using a custom-built web-based platform, telemedicine and automated software we will integrate care by primary care givers and MD experts to deliver a precise genetic diagnosis to our MD patients.
Enhancing Hepatitis C Testing And Treatment Among People Who Inject Drugs In Drug Treatment Settings: The ETHOS III Study
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,349,604.00
Summary
Progress towards hepatitis C elimination has been slowed. Given that most people with hepatitis C have a history of injecting drug use, reducing hepatitis C burden requires scale-up of enhanced testing and treatment for people who inject drugs. This Partnership project will evaluate an intervention to enhance hepatitis C testing and treatment in drug treatment clinics and develop a translational framework to scale-up hepatitis C care in this setting nationally.
Buruli ulcer (BU) is a destructive skin and soft tissue infection that can cause permanent deformity. Australian native possums carry in their guts the bacteria that causes BU and mosquitoes spread BU to people from areas contaminated by possum faeces. A targeted intervention based on screening possum faeces followed by control of mosquitoes in areas where possums and mosquitoes are shown to carry the bacteria will be trialed here, giving public health officials a means to stop this disease.