Alliance in partnership with Yale University Medical School held a two-day meeting Academy for Ukrainian specialists in implementing rapid change model for the improvement of addiction treatment (NIATx-RCM) on October 5–6.
Twenty-three participants from 13 oblasts of Ukraine shared and received knowledge, experience, as well as agreed on the new emerging strategies for enrolling and retaining OAT patients, such as prescriptions and take home dosages, adequate dosing, scale-up, standard time dosage escalation protocol, and standardized intake information. The essence of NIATx-RCM lies in implementation and assessment of an evidence-based intervention to improve processes at OAT sites in order to improve the levels of client enrolment and retention in the program. The results of implementations of selected interventions will be presented during the next meeting.
The project is implemented in strong collaboration with Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy and Ukrainian Center for Disease Control.
More information on NIATx implementation at OAT sites is available at: http://arcg.is/1Ijqjos