Tuberculosis

The John Burge Trust Fund

The John Burge Trust Fund is a private charitable trust established by the late John Burge to assist people with tuberculosis.

Type of Grant Round: Open

Grant Round Dates: 9am Monday 1^st August 2022 to 5pm Friday 26^th August 2022

What are the objectives?

The Trust Fund will grant funding for the below purposes, and to projects within Australia or overseas. The charity must be located within Australia.

1. for the purpose of aiding and helping those who are suffering, or have suffered from, tuberculosis and who by reason of the disease are disabled
2. to provide funds to implement programs for identifying and treating those persons who are at a higher risk than other members of the population of having or contracting tuberculosis
3. to provide funds to implement educational programs to inform health workers about the prevention, recognition, and treatment of tuberculosis
4. to provide medication for, and supervision of the use of medication by, members of groups who are at a high risk of having or contracting tuberculosis.

Past Recipients

Financial Year	Organisation	Title	Amount
FY22	Maluk Timor Australia	Detecting, Treating & Preventing Tuberculosis in Timor-Leste	$58,500
FY21	The University of Sydney – Office for Global Health	Child TB and Lung Health capacity building program in Vietnam	$58,500
FY21	The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health	TB Education and Counselling (TEC) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	$58,000
FY20	Murdoch Children’s Research Institute	Strengthening implementation of the management of household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Mongolia	$58,500
FY20	The University of Melbourne (Doherty Institute)	TB RECOVERY: nutritional support for families affected by TB in Nepal	$68,312
FY18	The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health Ltd	Family-Based TB Care and Prevention in Papua New Guinea (FAB-TB PNG)	$50,000
FY19	Murdoch Children’s Research Institute	Implementation of screening and management of household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Mongolia	$47,990