The National Hospital of Tropical Disease, with supports from US Naval Medical Research Center, specially Naval Medical Research Unit 2, will do a hospital and community based investigation of  ricketsia diseases, scrub typhus and Q fever in Viet Nam – (HACIRD project).

Participating organizations will be Ha Noi School of Public Health, Ha noi Medical university, Ha noi University of Science, Faculty of Geology, Geography, Preventive medicine centers and Animal Health center of 26 provinces nationwide, National Institute aof Hygienne and Epidemiology, National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, US Naval Medical Research Center in Maryland USA, specially US Naval Medical Research Unit 2 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Total invested funds of this project will be 3,1 million USD, from US Naval Medical Research Center for a period of 2017 – 2021.

General objectives of this projects are to investigate prevalence and distribution of ricketsia diseases, scrub typhus, Q fever and disase transmission vectors in hospital and in community nationwide, and to impove capacity of diagnosis, treatment, laboratory testing, case survveilance, prevention and control of ricketsia diseases, scrub typhus and Q fever in Viet Nam.

In particular, this project will

-          To investigate prevalence and distribution of ricketsia diseases, scrub typhus, Q fever in 27 hospital and 80 resident areas (10 high risk areas) within 26 provinces and 8 diferent ecological zones in Viet Nam

-          To develop ecological niche model to predict high risk points in uninvestigates areas

-          To build up capacity in project institutions by improving laboratory operation, testing, clinical dignosis, traetment, case reporting, supprtvision ans surveillance on infected arthropods, animal norned disease, epodemiology of Ricketssia scrub typhus and Q fever as well as in developing ecological niche model, interpolating and extrapolating of for Ricketssia diseases, scrub typhus and Q fever in Viet Nam

The US National Naval Medical Center is located in Bethesda Maryland, as suburb of Washington, D.C.  USA. It is one of the nation's largest and most renowned military medical centers, best known for its history of providing care to military and presidents alike for the past 65 years. The National Naval Medical Center is comprised of nearly 4,500 professionals, they also practice quality medicine, and do cutting-edge clinical research.