Transcript Strengthening health professional associations to enable them to contribute to TB control Group 2 Facilitators: Dr Nevin Wilson, The Union and Dr Pierre-Yves Norval, WHO/HQ.

Strengthening health professional
associations to enable them to
contribute to TB control
Group 2
Facilitators:
Dr Nevin Wilson, The Union
and Dr Pierre-Yves Norval, WHO/HQ
Summary of Discussion
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Professional associations are rather at an academic level – how to bring interface with NTP –
need to transition to public health
Starting point: Identify possible role the professional associations can have
Series of steps:
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Situation analysis, identify problems
Think how to work together – develop interests within associations : ISTC
Develop objectives of collaboration
Process: TOR, MOU
Need to have structure within NTP + Med Associations to oversee the functions
Challenge:
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What in countries where no strong professional association ?
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What in countries where many associations – India: IMA accepted to form coalition among other
organizations
Sensitivities between MOH and national medical associations
Lower income versus higher responsibilities with NTP collaboration
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Myanmar: CCM = country leadership in recognizing medical associations
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Should NTP initiate the collaboration? Yes, but not forming associations
Chair : Minister
Vice Chair: MMA
Suggestion to start at Medical Schools to sensitize future members of professional associations
Suggestion to organize and train groups for case holding (Red Cross, youth groups, …)
Need to have consensus on ‘think globally’ but countries themselves ‘act locally’
Start sensitization, then progress to training
Advocacy role in legislation (for example drug policy)
Advocacy role in guiding Government policy
Strengthening health professional associations
Activities to strengthen health
professional associations
What do the professional
associations need to do for
this?
Support, if any, required from
outside?
Diagnosis, situation analysis
Establish Task Force among
different type of association;
specialist – private provider
– medical school
Technical support in proposal
writing and project design
Develop infrastructure within
the professional organization
NTP to be the interface to
initiate dialogue + provide
technical and financial
support; identify focal person;
adapt specific tool
development
Strengthen collaboration
between public, private and
patient initiated by NTP
Need to expand patient
groups within their scope of
interest
Networking among different
associations - different
disciplines
Sharing of interest and
outcomes; 1 umbrella
association to coordinate
Leveraging other groups such
as Rotary, Red Cross
Enlarging the interest by the
association
M&E, impact measurement
Collaboration, commitment