Leprosy: too complex a disease for a simple elimination paradigm
Can leprosy be eliminated? This paper considers the question against the background of the WHO programme to eliminate leprosy. In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem by 2000. Elimination was defined as reaching a prevalence of < 1 case per...
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Main Authors: | Diana N.J. Lockwood (Author), Sujai Suneetha (Author) |
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The World Health Organization,
2005-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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