Mainstreaming NTD Morbidity Management into Health Insurance Schemes

Explore opportunities for integrating NTD morbidity management into national health insurance schemes for improved universal health coverage. Discuss sustainable practices, data collection, and service capacity building.

• health insurance
• universal health coverage
• morbidity management
• sustainable practices

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2. Global perspectives for mainstreaming NTD morbidity management services into national health insurance schemes and improving universal health coverage Opportunities for sustainable NTDs morbidity management Ernest Mensah Regional NTDs Technical Advisor & LF Focal Point, USAID s Act to End NTDs |West Program

3. Disclaimer This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of the Act to End NTDs | West program, led by FHI 360 in partnership with Helen Keller International, Health and Development International, Deloitte, World Vision and American Leprosy Missions under Cooperative Agreement No. 7200AA18CA00011 and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

4. NTDs Cross-cutting Targets for 2030 Integrated approaches Implement integrated skin NTD strategies Multisectoral coordination NTDs integrated in national health strategies/plans Population at risk protected against catastrophic out-of- pocket health expenditure due to NTDs NTD interventions included in packages of essential services and budget for them Guidelines for management of NTD-related disabilities within national health systems Universal health coverage Reporting on relevant endemic NTDs Collecting and reporting data on NTDs disaggregated by gender Country ownership

5. Entry Points for Sustainable MMDP Data for MMDP services Morbidity burden estimates Service data Enhancing service delivery capacity Training health workers Pre-service training Availability of facilities, equipment and consumables Access to MMDP services Service availability Financial risk protection

6. Opportunities for Integrated MMDP Data Management Integrated data collection Integrated NTDs morbidity case search Integration with mass campaigns, health evaluation platforms NID, MDA, SMC, DHS Integration of MMDP data into national HMIS Integrate MMDP indicators Integrated monitoring and response

7. Opportunities for Sustainable Service Capacity Building In-services training of health workers Pre-service training inclusion in training school curricula r Online self-training modules

8. Opportunities for Integrated and Sustainable MMDP Service Delivery Enhancing service availability Inclusion in universal healthcare packages Inclusion in service streams school health, outreach services, referral pathways to specialists Inclusion of medicines in national essential medicines list Inclusion in standard disease management guidelines Financial risk protection Inclusion in social health insurance services package Exemption packages Domestic financing national budgets, regional/district governments

9. Cross-cutting Issues Advocacy Engagement for policy changes Engagement for institutional reviews

10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

11. Thank you