IMPLEMENTING ARRANGEMENTS
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Inclusion of chest X-ray benefit in PhilHealth package under UHC
Health-care worker surveillance
Guidelines on how to conduct ACF (and ICF)
Outsourcing chest X-ray provider, or deployment of one-stop mobile chest X-ray with RDT (1 per provincewide/citywide health system)
Social and behavior change campaign for ACF
Develop capacity-building program and tools for TB navigators
Formation and capacity-building of patient support groups
Community-based sputum collection and transport
Expand and scale up pharmacy referral for identified presumptive TB
Integrate contact investigation in ACF and ICF
Utilize NDPs and TB navigators for contact investigations and sputum collection
Expand use of TST (or IGRA) for screening of LTBI
STRATEGY 4: Contact investigation
Professionalize community volunteers (capacity-building and incentives) as TB navigators
STRATEGY 3: Enhanced case finding (ECF)
Develop policy on use of digital chest X-ray and artificial intelligence for reading
STRATEGY 2: Active case finding (ACF)
Adoption of ICF approach in hospitals
Develop regulatory policies for mandatory reporting of chest X-ray census and results
Online reporting system for workplace chest X-ray screening
STRATEGY 1: Intensified case finding (ICF)
Expand chest X-ray voucher system
STRATEGIES ON SCREENING
KEY ACTIVITIES
Annex 3. Timelines of key activities per strategy 2020
2021
2022
2023
