Whither "world without leprosy"?

Progress in research towards a world without leprosy. Report of a WHO meeting in Ethiopia, February 1998.

A UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases meeting to discuss the future role of biomedical research in leprosy, was held at the Armauer Hansen Research Institute in Addis Ababa, on February 27 and 28, 1998. This was attended by more than 20 scientists from 10 countries, who met to discuss progress towards a world without leprosy.

Whither cardiac work evaluation units?

Copyright © 1969 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Dallas, TX 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, 1969;39;283-285 Circulation GEORGE A. HELLMUTH Whither Cardiac Work Evaluation Units? http://circ.ahajournals.org services, is located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with...

Working Paper No . 23 Whither the World Bank and the IMF ?

The treatment of leprosy.

From whatever standpoint leprosy is viewed, whether from that of the clinician or the epidemiologist, the objective must be to diagnose and treat the maximum number of leprosy patients, not only because the disease is curable but because treatment renders ' open ' cases non-contagious long before cure is obtained. Now that it is becoming generally accepted that the way to leprosy eradication li...

Whither Mental Health Policy-Where Does It Come from and Does It Go Anywhere Useful?; Comment on “Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy”

Factors influencing cross-national diffusion of mental health policy are important to understand but complex to research. This commentary discusses Shen’s research study on cross-national diffusion of mental health policy; examines the extent to which the three questions researched by Shen (whether countries are more likely to have a mental health policy (a) the earlier a country becomes a memb...