Advocacy for operationalizing/Implementing the DR-TB Care Package
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- Scope: 24 Priority Countries
- Focus: National Program Managers, Facility Level Managers, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
- Objectives:
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- What are the thematic areas of the comprehensive care package?
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- Detailed Outline:
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- 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
- Framework for delivering DR-TB care package
- Date and Time: October 15, 2019 at 9:00 AM ET