On Leprosy Control Policy in Okinawa

Filariasis Control in Okinawa

Any disease before it comes under a particular control program should have been first recognized by the people of the community who are suffering from it in their own sphere of life. This recognition may be in some instances so obscure that it should be brought to light or reaffirmed scientifically by research workers, epidemiologists or by public health officials. When the cultural standard of...

Interpreting data in policy & control: The case of leprosy

Reflections on Global Forum on Leprosy Control.

At the time of publishing the Global Strategy to Further Reduce the Leprosy Burden, it was envisaged that more detailed operational guidelines would be published to ‘enable countries to develop their own country-specific strategies and plans of action’. The plan was turned into reality (albeit later than anticipated) through a Global Forum on Leprosy Control that met in the University of Aberde...

Leprosy Control

(Clarke, 1933). An article on the control of leprosy could not commence better than with the above quotation. Syphilis, tuberculosis and leprosy are the three diseases which for many decades have been under a social stigma, and of these diseases leprosy least deserves the opprobrium which has been showered upon it. Therefore, before considering the question of the prevention of leprosy, it woul...

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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