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Ending TB Now: Commitment of Professional Societies and Organizations

This commitment highlights the involvement of professional societies and organizations in ending TB in the Philippines. Through concrete activities and game-changing strategies, they advocate for early diagnosis, standardized treatment, routine notification, and collaboration with stakeholders. Key issues addressed include limited access to quality diagnostic tools, privacy rights, and establishing an efficient network. The commitment aims to find, treat, and notify all TB cases to achieve the targets.

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Ending TB Now: Commitment of Professional Societies and Organizations

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  1. #EndTBNowNa! Professional Societies and Health Maintenance Organizations SECTOR COMMITMENT TO END TB “Business not-as-usual..”

  2. 2018 UN High Level Meeting (New York) Philippine commitment 2.5 million TB patients to be treated in 2018-2022 “Business not-as-usual…”

  3. (20) Professional Societies and Private OrganizationsResponded to the Call to Support the UN High Level Philippine Commitment

  4. November 5, 2018 Consultative Meeting with Professional Medical Societies and Private Providers on the Mandatory Notification explore and identify concrete activities how the community of professional medical societies and health providers’ groups can support WHO’s End TB Strategy and the country’s PhilSTEP1 • November 16, 2018 • Signing of Commitment • February 15, 2019 • Planning Workshop and Trainer’s Training for Professional Medical Societies Operationalizing Commitment to Provide Standardized Quality Tuberculosis (TB) Care and Actively Participate in TB Advocacy and Notification Activities

  5. We Commit to Find, Treat, Notify ALL TB Cases to Achieve the Targets Committed

  6. #EndTBNowNa! Game Changing Strategies “Business not-as-usual..”

  7. Game Changing Strategy 1 Enjoin local chapters and individual members to actively advocate, disseminate and provide quality care to patients and their families with or exposed to TB through early diagnosis and standardized treatment “Business not-as-usual..”

  8. Game Changing Strategy 2 • Integrate standardized care including routine notification of diagnosed TB cases in basic hospital protocols and required competencies in all residency and clinical fellowship training programs and teaching hospitals for internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, occupational medicine, clinical pathology, radiology and other relevant specialties and disciplines involved in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all forms of TB “Business not-as-usual..”

  9. Game Changing Strategy 3 Actively support activities to notify diagnosed TB cases to the National TB Program (NTP) by referring to private or public DOTS facilities for registration and/or treatment or directly notifying privately managed cases in the Integrated TB Information System (ITIS) espousing the ideals of honesty and accuracy in recording and reporting utilizing prescribed forms and tools by the NTP “Business not-as-usual..”

  10. Game Changing Strategy 4 Keep a proactive stance in collaborating with other healthcare providers, local NTP program and other stakeholders in formulating and implementing strategies, policies and procedures to screen-all for TB, especially among patients with TB symptoms, exposed contacts and identified high risk clinical groups seeking care in healthcare facilities with or without symptoms “Business not-as-usual..”

  11. Game Changing Strategy 5 Active Participation in Building Public Awareness on TB Care and Prevention through the Social Media and Community Assemblies “Business not-as-usual..”

  12. #EndTBNowNa! Key Issues Affecting the Sector “Business not-as-usual..”

  13. Key Issue affecting the Sector 1 Limited private patient access to quality-assured new diagnostic tools and treatment services offered for free by the government or access to affordable diagnostic and treatment services at the point of care

  14. Key Issue affecting the Sector 2 Bill of Rights, Philippine Constitution 1987 In the Philippines’ 1987 Constitution, the Filipino patient’s right to privacy and confidentiality is guaranteed under Article 3, Section 3: “ The privacy of communication an correspondence shall be inviolable except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise, as prescribed by law.” Addressing data privacy issues in compliance to Mandatory Reporting of TB cases detected.

  15. Key Issue affecting the Sector 3 Establishing an efficient network or linkage between the DOH-LGU and professional societies and other partners to be able to effectively participate in decision making, monitoring progress of implementation and addressing issues related to diagnosis, treatment and reporting of TB cases at the National, Regional and Local Levels.

  16. #EndTBNowNa! Resources “Business not-as-usual..”

  17. Resources to Find Missing Cases Nationwide Society Chapters & Members Expertise

  18. We Commit to Find, Treat, Notify ALL TB Cases to Achieve the Targets Committed

  19. Thank you!

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