- Scope: NAP Countries, 24 Priority Countries, Global
- Focus: NTP, NGOs, civil society, incl patients groups
- Objectives:
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- Describe the global context and rationale for a comprehensive care package programming
- Provide an overview of the NAP
- Detail Objective 2 as it relates to the comprehensive care package
- Describe the framework and components of the comprehensive care package
- Provide an overview of the practical guide and associated tools
- Share early lessons learned from the pilot countries (China, Pakistan, South Africa, Ukraine)
- Expected Outputs/Outcomes: After attending the webinar, participants will be able to
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- Understand the rationale for implementing the comprehensive care package for DR-TB
- 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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- Understand the overall framework and components of comprehensive care package
- 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
- Gain basic knowledge about the guidance documents for implementing care package
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- Context and Rationale for care package for NTPs and MOH programming
- Current DR-TB situation
- Global statistics and epidemiology
- USAID support for DR-TB programs globally
- USAID projects/funding and guidance
- Rationale for a comprehensive care package
- Link to the SDGs and UHC
- Patient and community perspectives
- The comprehensive care package framework
- Thematic areas and their components
- Operationalizing the framework at national, facility and patient level
- Guidance documents
- Implementing comprehensive supportive care for people with DR-TB
- Pilot projects
- Pilot objectives
- Example of package implementation in country
- Early lessons from the pilot countries
- Q&A
- Conclusions
- Click here to join the Webinar on July 22, 2019 at 9AM EST
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