Implementing the DR-TB Care Package at the National Level
- Scope: 24 Priority Countries, Global?
- Focus: NTP, National Program Managers
- Objectives:
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- 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 national level
- Describe the tools and their use for implementing care package
- 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
- Understand the overall framework and components of comprehensive care package
- Understand the need for adaptation and implementation based on country context
- Understand the steps for designing and implementing the care package adapted to the country context
- Develop capacity to use How-To Guide and tools to design, implement and monitor 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
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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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- Rationale for the DR-TB care package
- Current DR-TB situation
- Link to the SDGs and UHC
- 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 supportive care package
- Care package guidance documents
- The 10-step process for introducing supportive care package at the national 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
- Rationale for the DR-TB care package
- Date and Time: September 9, 2019 at 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)