Leprosy among foreign missionaries in Northern Nigeria.

Lessons from the evolution of a CBR programme for people affected by leprosy in Northern Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews the 13-year evolution of the social economic activities in Northern Nigeria from a welfare-oriented to a community-centred programme for people affected by leprosy. DESIGN The review relied on the analysis of policy and strategy documents, programme guidelines and statistical and evaluation reports. RESULTS Findings revealed that the transformation among other t...

'Money is the vehicle of interaction': insight into social integration of people affected by leprosy in northern Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE This paper proposes a mechanism by which socio-economic rehabilitation (SER) reduces stigma in northern Nigeria following are-analysis of the transcripts of interviews conducted to evaluate the impact of SER on leprosy-related stigma. DESIGN The evaluation combined quantitative questionnaire (P-scale) with qualitative interviews of 20 individuals affected by leprosy, five focus grou...

WHO surveys of disabilities in leprosy in northern Nigeria (Katsina), Cameroon and Thailand (Khon Kaen).

An evaluation of 35 years of leprosy control in northern Nigeria as demonstrated in the original pilot project Katsina.

Leprosy control is nothing more and nothing less than trying to interrupt transmission of the disease by first diagnosing and then treating all the active leprosy patients with a sufficient amount of drugs for a sufficiently long time. Though this seems very easy in theory, it proves to be extremely difficult in practice, and almost none or only very few of the leprosy control projects have ach...

Social aspects of leprosy: a case study in Zaria, northern Nigeria.

Leprosy holds a unique position among communicable diseases because of the incidence of deformity, physical handicap, and ostracism due to social stigma. The att itude of patients to leprosy control i s influenced by widely held tradit ional beliefs about the disease and its causes, and it is important for those engaged in leprosy work to be informed about social aspects . The objectives of thi...