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Cette fiche technique explique comment le Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées de la Sierra Leone a adopté une approche collaborative d'Amélioration de la Qualité dans 10 unités de santé périphériques.

This technical brief discusses how the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health adopted a collaborative quality improvement (QI) approach to enhance community engagement and improve MDA coverage in 10 peripheral health units within the four districts that failed pre-TAS.

This technical brief discusses how the West African countries within the Act | West portfolio have transformed WHO guidelines and recommendations into practical approaches to achieve interruption of onchocerciasis transmission.

This technical brief discusses WHO's Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) and Act | West's approach that is used to support countries to achieve LF elimination.

Adverse events (AEs) particularly severe adverse events (SAEs) during and following mass drug administration have a serious effect not only on the people who are affected directly, but also on the viability of the MOH’s national NTD control program.

Trachoma baseline surveys, trachoma impact surveys, trachoma surveillance surveys, and trichiasis-only surveys are key disease-specific assessments of trachoma elimination programs, used to start mass drug administration (MDA), monitor progress, decide when to stop MDA, and inform attainment of elimination of trachoma as a public health problem.

This resource document complements the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) guidance for NTD programs released on July 27, 2020.

West African neglected tropical diseases (NTD) programs have made great progress toward the elimination/control of NTDs amenable to preventive chemotherapy. However, some districts have failed impact surveys—notably for lymphatic filariasis and trachoma—due to implementation inadequacies, despite reporting good mass treatment coverage. A quality improvement framework has been initiated to strengthen country program interventions and address issues that hinder their ability to achieve the World Health Organization NTD road map elimination/control goals.  The workshop aims to present an innovative model for improving implementation and discuss ideas, strategies, and plans for initiating quality improvement (QI) activities. Experiences from Ghana and Sierra Leone in the design and implementation of the QI model will be shared.