• Scope: 24 Priority Countries, Global
• Focus: Facility Level Managers, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
• Objectives:

• • Rationale for a comprehensive care package programming
  • Describe the framework and components of the comprehensive care package
  • Describe the step-by-step approach to implementing care package at the facility and patient level
  • Describe the tools and their use for implementing the care package

• Expected Outputs/Outcomes: After attending the webinar, participants will be able to

• • Understand the rationale for implementing the comprehensive care package for DR-TB
  • Understand the overall framework and components of comprehensive care package
  • Understand the need for adaptation and implementation based on country context
  • Understand the design steps for implementing the care package at country level
  • Develop capacity to use How-To Guide and tools to design and implement care package
  • 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:

• • • Rationale for the DR-TB care package
      • Patient and community perspectives
    • Framework for delivering DR-TB care package
      • General overview of framework
      • Thematic areas and their components
      • Operationalizing the framework at national, facility and patient level
    • Step-by-step approach to implementing DR-TB care package at the facility and patient level
      • Care package guidance documents
      • Principles of patient-centered case management
      • The 3-step process for supportive care package implementation at the facility and patient level
      • Introduction to each step
    • Operational Toolkit for designing supportive care package at the national level
      • Introduction to tools
    • Q&A
    • QUIZ for learning assessment
    • Conclusions
  • Click here to join the webinar on September 30, 2019 at 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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