Advocacy for operationalizing/Implementing the DR-TB Care Package

- Scope: 24 Priority Countries
- Focus: National Program Managers, Facility Level Managers, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
- Objectives:
- - Describe the framework and components of the comprehensive care package
  - Provide an overview of the benefits of implementing the DR-TB care package
  - Describe the role advocacy plays in the implementation of the DR-TB care package.
  - Describe the advocacy tools and their use for implementing the care package
- Expected Outputs/Outcomes: After attending the webinar, participants will be able to
- - Understand the overall framework and components of comprehensive care package
  - Understand the need for adaptation and implementation based on facility context
  - Understand the role advocacy plays in supporting the implementation of the DR-TB care package
  - Develop capacity to use How-To Guide and tools to design, implement and monitor care package at the facility level
  - Poll questions:
- Why is it important to implement a comprehensive care package for patients with DR-TB?
  - essential to prevent suffering and death from TB and to reduce transmission
  - Improve access to TB treatment
- - - What are the thematic areas of the comprehensive care package?
      - Respect patient autonomy and improve self-efficacy, maximize physical comfort, safety, and wellness, provide psycho-emotional support and protection from social isolation or discrimination, prevent catastrophic costs to patient and family
      - Respect patient autonomy and improve self-efficacy, provide psycho-emotional support and protection from social isolation or discrimination, prevent catastrophic costs to patient and family
      - Respect patient autonomy and improve self-efficacy, maximize physical comfort, safety, and wellness, provide psycho-emotional support and protection from social isolation or discrimination
- Detailed Outline:
- - Framework for delivering DR-TB care package
    - Rationale for the Comprehensive care package
    - General overview of framework
      - Thematic areas and their components
  - Operationalizing/implementing the framework at national, facility and patient level
  - Role of CSO in the operationalization of the framework
    - Advocacy and Social Mobilization
    - Community Engagement
    - Communication for Social Change
  - Monitoring Advocacy efforts
    - Introduction to tools (Advocacy and Social Mobilization Plan, M&E plan)
  - Q&A
  - Conclusions
- Date and Time: October 15, 2019 at 9:00 AM ET