Involving Professional Societies in TB Control

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Involving Professional Societies in TB Control

• PPM Meeting,
• Cairo
• June 4, 2008

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Goal and Objectives

• Goal To obtain input for a project to mobilize
  professional societies for TB care and control
• Objectives
• review briefly the results of ISTC pilot tests
• describe potential roles of societies
• present ideas and questions for a project to be
  proposed to TBCAP
• set the stage for the breakout group Mobilizing
  national professional associations for TB control

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ISTC Pilot Sites
India Indonesia Kenya Mexico Tanzania
http//www.istcweb.org/Materials.html
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ISTC Focus of a Global Campaign

• Intends to unite public and private sectors in
  providing a uniformly accepted level of care
• Describes the essential elements of TB care that
  should be available everywhere
• Provides a vehicle for mobilizing professional
  societies globally in support of TB programs
• Serves as a powerful advocacy tool to ensure that
  the essential elements are available
• Provides support for The Patients Charter for
  Tuberculosis Care.

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Findings from Assessment of ISTC Utilization

• The ISTC provides a vehicle for mobilization
• Motivated professional societies can play a key
  role in
• Systematic dissemination of ISTC
• Education based on ISTC
• Conducting local situation analyses using ISTC as
  the framework
• Advocating for the means to adhere to the ISTC

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ISTC India

• IMPACT Indian Medical Professional Associations
  Coalition against Tuberculosis
• Indian Medical Association
• Association of Physicians of India
• Indian Chest Society
• National College of Chest Physicians (India)
• Indian Academy of Paediatrics
• Federation of Family Physicians Associations of
  India

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Professional Society Endorsements Indonesia
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ISTC Indonesia

• Coalition formed to conduct a coordinated
  professional society campaign led by Indonesian
  Medical Association with strong support from the
  Indonesian Society of Respirology
• Dissemination education activities
• Situation analysis of the constraints to full
  implementation at provincial level
• Patients Charter Activities

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ISTC Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico

• Kenya
• Coordinated professional society campaign with
  KAPTLD
• Dissemination Education Activities
• Tanzania
• Developing coordinated curriculum for medical
  students at all schools in the country
• Mexico
• Adaptation at state level via professional
  societies and national/local control programs

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ISTC Utilization Role of Professional societies

• Forming or catalyzing coalitions
• Serving as conduits to their private sector
  members, including academicians
• Giving credibility to public health programs
• Providing technical assistance to programs
• Conducting training activities
• Exerting peer pressure
• Advocating for appropriate resources and
  policies.

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Professional Society Mobilization Project

• ATS-WHO collaboration (as with ISTC)
• Preliminary ideas (for input from group)
• Goal to foster effective collaborations between
  NTPs and private providers.
• Rationale Professional societies provide a
  systematic means of engaging private providers.
• Process
• WHO and NTPs to identify most relevant (and
  willing) professional societies in HBCs (and ?
  others) to be the lead organization.
• Initiated with a full day session as part of DEWG
  meeting at the Union conference in October.

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Professional Society Mobilization Project

• Seek agreement to form coalitions of societies
  using model of India and Indonesia
• Present/discuss the outlines (possible
  components) of a work plan.
• Provide grants (? up to10,000) to fund work plan
  during year 1.
• Provide TA for work plan development and
  implementation
• Review progress/accomplishments at Union meeting
  in 2009
• Seek country-level funding after first year.

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Professional Society Mobilization Project

• Important questions
• What is the role of multinational organizations?
• (examples World Medical Association, Forum of
  International Respiratory Societies ATS, ERS,
  ALAT, APSR, ACCP, PATS, The Union)
• How many societies should be involved?
• How can technical assistance be provided?
• How can/should a focus on professional societies
  be maintained beyond the project?

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Weighty Questions can Immobilize the Process