Innovative and Intensified Disease Management (IDM)

Rationale

IDM focuses on diseases for which cost-effective control tools do not exist and where large-scale use of existing tools is limited.

The diseases include Buruli ulcer, Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis and share the following characteristics:

• difficult and costly to manage – diagnosis, treatment and follow up;
• burden is poorly understood;
• lack of appropriate control tools;
• relatively lower investment in research and development;
• people affected often live in remote rural areas with limited access to diagnosis and treatment.

• To intensify disease management using existing tools.
• To encourage the rapid development and implementation of better control tools and to ensure the full involvement of national control programmes.
• To advocate for health service development in affected areas.