NTD training knowledge

Module 2. NTD strategies

Preventive Chemotherapy (PC)

Intensified Disease Management (IDM)

Control of Neglected Zoonotic Diseases

Integrated Vector Management

Water and Sanitation

Health Education

Cross cutting strategic approaches

Lymphatic filariasis (LF)

Onchocerciasis (Oncho)

Schistosomiasis (Schisto)

Soil-transmitted Helminth (STH)

Food-borne trematodes (FBT)

Trachoma

Human African trypanosomiasis

Chagas diseases

Buruli ulcer

Leishmaniasis

Dengue

Capacity building

Vector-borne diseases

Veterinary diseases

WASH

1) PC

2) Complex disease management

Inexpensive easy diagnostics

Safe drugs

Integration across diseases possible

Complicated and costly

Difficult to diagnoss, dangerous drugs

Highly stilled staff needed

Strategy

Toxic and expenisve drug

Active case-finding through mobile teams

Decentralization of diagnosis and treatment

Specialized staff, diagnosticand treatment equipment

Objective: to find all the patients, and ensure that they are adequately treated and cured

5 approaches to overcome NTDs

PC

IDM

Veterinary public heatlh

Safe drinking-water sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Vector control

PC

Def: a public health intervention based on the large-scale administration of safe drugs, either alone or in cominatioin, against selected Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Medicine: ALB+IVE or DEC

PZQ

PZQ

ALB or MBD

AZM

IVE

Integration

Integrate treatment for multiple diseases as a package

Integrate PC-related activities

Stepwise approach for decision making

Integration of distribution channels

Mobidity management and disability prevention

Steps to set up an effective LF MMDP (tool kit available)

Situation analysis

Preparing an implementation policy and plan

Operationalizing activities to provide the minimum package of care

Ensuring activities are integrated into health services

Trachoma MMDP

SAFE strategy: Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness, Environmental improvement

Mobidity: impaired vision or blindness due to trichiasis

WASH

Def:
Water: access to safe water.....
Sanitation: Sanitary latrines...
Hygiene Promotion: hygiene campaigns in communities

It reduces PC NTDs

Check SDG goals for access to safe water and sanitation: The Water access MDG target was surpassed, but sanitation target did not atteinded

Water Safety Plans (WSPs): risk management system for water suppliers

Household Water Treatment and Storage (HWTS): promoting low cost interventions to disinfect water and store it

WASH-NTD collaboration

Incorporate face-washing into hygien education

Include sanitation and hand-washing education in training

Mapping/monitoring NTD as proxy of sanitation coverage

Vector control

The role of vector control

To compliment PC strategies

to reduce the transmission potential and new infections

To encourage environmental improvement

To control NTDs dnot taregeted by PC

Integrated Vector Management

Advocacy, social mobilization and legislation

Collaboration within the health sector and with other sectors

Integrated approach

Evidence-based decision making

Capacity building

GMP and GPELF (Malaria and LF)

Actions

Mosquito control - Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)

Mosquito Control - LLIN

Blackfly control - Larvicides

Snail Control - Molluscicides

Fly control

Module 3. Set up an integrated NTDP

1) Situation Analysis

Geographic overlap of NTDs (Who is doing what in where

4) Tool for Integrated Planning and Costing (TIPAC)

Purpose: presents NTD costs and funding gap. For program management and communication with donors and partners.

Objectives:

Estimate the cost of implementing integrated NTD control programs in accordance with international guidelines and national plans of actions

Quantify existing funds and resources from government and other sources for national plans of action

Generate projections of drug needs for 5 years

Outputs:

Total cost by activity

Total program funding

5 year cost projections

PC drugs needed, acquired and gap

Annual work plan matrix

2) Mapping

Purpose: determine the endemicity and related intervention strategy

Data

Sources: MoH, Academic theses, NGO reports, In-country published literature, in-country disease-specific specialists, health facility records/Statistics
NTD specific data source: WHO/NTD country profiles; WHO/NTD PC databank SAC- School Age Children

Data assessment:

  • When was the data collected
  • Have interventions been done?
  • Has the local ecology changed?
  • Is it suitable for decision making for PC and morbidity control?
  • Are the maps complete? Are there gaps for any of the NTDs?

3). National Action Plan /NTD Master Plan

Key interventions - Global NTD Roadmap 2020

Preventive Chemotherapy

Vector control

Improvement of veterinary public health

WASH

Intensive Case Management

Integration of NTDPs

Vertical disease control --> one national NTDP

Identify what actions can be integrated

Coordination who is doing what

Identifying the gaps: financial and technical

Integration decision making criteria

Cost-effectiveness

Enhanced impacts

Political advantages

Logistic convenience

Timing

Safety

NTDP "roll-out package"

NTD Task Force - A national NTD Action Plan for integrated management - Stakeholder's meeting (who contribute to which part of funding gap)

Why it is important to have a NTD action plan

How to write an action plan

Assess pub health importance of NTD -> Inclusion of diseases -> Political will ->coordination mechanism ->Identify national FP ->identify potential partners -> international guidelines -> identify a TD coordinator ->perform the situation analysis ->TA from WHO or partners - draft

Who develop the NTDP

Developed by the NTD PMs government, MoH, with its stakeholders and key partners.(WHO has a standardised approach)

Module 1. Introduction

Common feature of NTDs

Social determinants of NTDs

Common feature of NTDPs

Integration opportunities

Main activities for NTDs

Strategic planning and review

Advocacy

mapping

training

Drug logistics &supply chain management

Social mobilization

Drug distribution

M&E

Drug distribution

Community-based

School-based

Child Health Day

Immunization

Health & nutrition day

Health Education

Module 5. Medicines for PC

Joint Application Package

Joint request for selected PC medecines (JRSM

Joint reporting form (for treatment data only)

Annual work plan

PC epidemiological data reporting form (EPIRF)

GSK - ALB

Eisai - DEC

J&J - MBD

Merck KGaA - PZQ