Microplanning manual to guide implementation of preventive chemotherapy to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2022-09-05
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9240049487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion people globally, causing serious, long-term health effects. Timely, effective interventions such as preventive chemotherapy, which involves the regular administration of safe, effective medicines to a defined population irrespective of its infection status, reduce morbidity and mortality. The new NTD road map advocates preventive chemotherapy as a core intervention to reduce the burden of NTDs. Effective administration of preventive chemotherapy relies largely on operational planning which addresses the need for programmes to reach all eligible people and maximize community demand for the intervention. Local, bottom-up planning (“microplanning”) fosters effective implementation and monitoring of public health programmes. Originally, public health implementers developed microplanning for use in vaccination campaigns, but various programmes, including those for control and elimination of NTDs, now use it. This manual is based on these and other country experiences in microplanning of preventive chemotherapy for NTDs. It describes the basic concepts of microplanning and provides steps and examples of tools to develop and implement a microplan. Since microplanning originates at the lowest level of implementation, and is a bottom-up process, the main target audience of this manual is individuals who are responsible for oversight of preventive chemotherapy against NTDs.