INTRODUCING NEW APPROACHES AND TOOLS FOR ENHANCED TB CONTROL (INAT) SUBGROUP

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The sub-group for Introducing New Approaches and Tools would be a hub for ensuring that countries receive relevant and timely information and support to enable the rapid introduction of new tools, policies and approaches. The objectives of the sub-group for Introducing New Approaches and Tools would be to:

  1. Solicit information from NTPs and other implementing partners on the challenges being faced with evaluating, adopting, introducing or implementing new tools or approaches as an integral part of accelerating progress towards the MDGs
  2. Prioritize and coordinate a concerted response to the operational challenges identified including:
    1. Ensure that relevant technical support is provided to countries or made available within countries with respect to "retooling"; including ensuring that strategic planning, resource mobilization, and routine monitoring and supervision includes consideration of new tools and approaches (note: to be coordinated with TB TEAM and other implementation WGs), and building capacity for ‘retooling’ among technical assistance partners
    2. Formulate and include guidance related to the introduction of new tools and approaches in upcoming technical guidelines, operational tools (e.g. budgeting tool) and policies of WHO and other normative bodies; develop other guidance as requested by countries
    3. Coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information on emerging new tools and approaches, as requested by countries and in a manner consistent with national planning for DOTS expansion (note: to be coordinated with other WGs)
  3. Prioritize operational and evaluation research that will facilitate the widescale implementation of new approaches and tools, notably responding to the gap between the endpoints for research conducted by product developers and the integration of new tools into country programmes; advocate for and coordinate the implementation of priority research
  4. Identify and implement solutions to the absence or weakness of global and country-level regulatory mechanisms for new tools, including coordinating support to county level policy processes
  5. Track progress in the uptake and expansion of new policies and approaches, coordinating with countries, implementing partners, and WHO regional offices to promote the expansion of these new tools
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