The Fungal Infection Trust is a small not-for-profit charity based in the UK
FIT financially supports the work carried out by the National Aspergillosis Centre including this website and NAC Facebook support groups and the Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG) and they provide support worldwide to research groups investigating aspergillosis.
If you want to support aspergillosis research and support, please consider donating to the Fungal Infection Trust.
The Trust’s objectives are the following:
- To advance education, particularly amongst physicians and scientists about mycology, fungal diseases, fungal toxicology and microbial disease in general.
- To promote and publish research in all aspects of mycology, fungal diseases, fungal toxicology and microbial disease (of all living things).
- Generally to support basic research into fungi and fungal disease, train scientists into mycology and related disciplines.
A major cause of serious infection and death is the lack of expertise required to accurately and quickly diagnose many severe fungal infections. Treatment costs are falling, we can improve this situation but awareness is often poor. The Fungal Infection Trust aims to provide practical assistance to medical professionals faced with the tasks of diagnosing these infections and resources for research to improve diagnostics.
FIT has long helped those who suffer from aspergillosis, a rare infection in those of us with a healthy immune system but is increasingly being found in those with impaired immunity (e.g. after a transplant operation) or damaged lungs (e.g. those with cystic fibrosis or who have had tuberculosis or severe asthma – and discovered most recently those with COVID-19 and the ‘flu!).