Delivery of MDT through blister calendar packs in leprosy eradication programmes--a multicentre field study (phase I). Multicentre Study Group.

Further observations on MDT blister-calendar packs in vertical leprosy eradication programmes--a multicentre study (phase II)

To improve operational efficiency as well as to improve patient compliance in leprosy programmes, DANIDA introduced blister-calendar packs (BCP) to deliver MDT in 4 MDT districts in India in 1987. An objective study (Phase II) involving 343 patients in a trial group (BCP group) and 253 patients in a control group (loose drug group) showed no significant difference in compliance rates for self-a...

Comment: Blister-calendar packs for multiple drug therapy in leprosy.

Leprosy elimination through integrated basic health services in Myanmar: the role of midwives.

Myanmar is one of the top 16 countries identified by WHO as being hyperendemic for leprosy. Multi-drug therapy (MDT) was introduced in 1988 as a vertical programme and gradually integrated into the basic health services (BHS), achieving 100% coverage over the registered cases by 1995. To achieve maximum coverage of and benefit for patients, both leprosy vertical staff and BHS staff were trained...

OFLOXACIN multicentre trial in MB leprosy FUAM-Manaus and ILSL-Bauru, Brazil.

UNLABELLED Recently antimicrobials of the fluoroquinolone class (pefloxacin and ofloxacin) were found far more effective against Mycobacterium leprae in studies with both mice and patients than dapsone and clofazimine. As multicentre trial participants, we evaluated the therapeutic efficacy, in terms of rate of relapse, of two new multidrug regimens containing ofloxacin, comparing them to 1 yea...

Uveitis in leprosy patients who got inactive condition in pre-WHO/MDT era.

I Single-lesion multicentre trial group efficacy of single-dose multidrug therapy for the treatment of single-lesion paucibacillary leprosy. Indian J Lep. 1 997; 69: 1 2 1 1 29. 2 Lara CB, Bolasco JO. Self healing or abortive and residual forms of childhood leprosy and their probable significance. Int J Lep, 1 956; 24: 245-263. 3 Ramanujam K. Findings of a nineteen year follow-up of children wi...