Challenges in Leprosy Rehabilitation

Answering the rehabilitation needs of leprosy-affected persons in integrated setting through primary health care services and community-based rehabilitation.

This article aims to discuss the strategies for answering the rehabilitation needs of persons with leprosy-related disabilities in integrated settings through primary health care (PHC) services and community-based rehabilitation (CBR). While the provision of rehabilitation services through the PHC system remains problematic in most developing countries, the article concludes that CBR programmes...

Preventive rehabilitation in leprosy.

Informal consultation on innovative approaches to further reduce leprosy burden in countries: 17-18 September 2008, New Delhi, India.

Dr. Samlee Plianbangchang, Regional Director, WHO SEARO opened the meeting and welcomed the participants and thanked them for coming to the meeting in-spite of the short notice. He emphasised the need to enhance the global strategy to ensure further reduction of the leprosy burden, and to look into the future on how to make the leprosy control programme more strategic and innovative in addressi...

[Leprosy-related disabilities after release from multidrug treatment: prevalence and spatial distribution].

OBJECTIVE To estimate the frequency of people with leprosy-related physical disabilities after release from multidrug treatment and to analyze their spatial distribution. METHODS Descriptive cross-sectional study with 232 leprosy patients treated between 1998 and 2006. Physical disabilities were assessed using the World Health Organization disability grading and the eye-hand-foot (EHF) sum sc...

Small loan schemes: the experience of Ethiopia.

Leprosy is a medico-social problem and more than a disease . Statistics indicate that the disease, as a medical problem, has been decreasing steadily world wide since the advent of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in the early 1980s. However, the social dimensions of the disease in terms of stigma, poverty, disabilities and deformities, loss of self-respect and dignity have continued to constitute a ma...