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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"leprosy"”.
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Leprosy in Brazil: How Can Brazil Meet the World Health Organization's Goal of Leprosy Control?
BACKGROUND: Leprosy causes a high social and economic cost on communities. Brazil has the second most cases of leprosy in the world. Brazil's incidence of leprosy decreased significantly with the start of multi drug therapy in 1981, but over the past ten years, the incidence has remained fairly …
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Missionaries, the state of leprosy in Zambia
… purpose of the study was to present a history of leprosy in pre and colonial Zambia (1893 – 1964). Leprosy was a widespread disease whose victims were highly stigmatised, socially discriminated against and isolated. The study focused on approaches by missionaries and government towards its …
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Missionaries, the state of leprosy in Zambia
… purpose of the study was to present a history of leprosy in pre and colonial Zambia (1893 – 1964). Leprosy was a widespread disease whose victims were highly stigmatised, socially discriminated against and isolated. The study focused on approaches by missionaries and government towards its …
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Struggling against leprosy: physicians, medicine, and society in Colombia, 1880-1940
This study examines the constructions of leprosy in Colombia from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s. In the nineteenth century Colombian physicians constructed leprosy as highly infectious and threatening and adopted rigid segregation of “lepers” to prevent its propagation. At the same time, …
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Development and evaluation of new leprosy skin test antigens as diagnostic tools
An early diagnostic test for leprosy that is adequately sensitive and specific to identify infected individuals before the onset of clinical symptoms continues to be one of the greatest needs in the field. Preclinical diagnosis would expedite the delivery of chemotherapy to patients, prevent …
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The background and predisposing causes of leprosy in Poona district, British India
The subject of leprosy is a large one, and it is not proposed to carry this study of it further at this time. On return to India, the author hopes to continue the study of leprosy in Poona District, and to make an effort to place the control of the disease on a better footing. From study of the …
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Leprosy: with special reference to its occurrence in the Protectorate of Gambia
Central Africa presents the biggest leprosy problem which the Empire has to face and must face. The extent of the disease is not yet realised nor will it be so until thorough and systematic search be made in the villages in all the colonies. A superficial count is so inaccurate and misleading as to …
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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana
… much of the twentieth century, many people with leprosy (Hansen's disease or HD) in the United States faced mandatory banishment to state-run facilities dedicated solely to containing their disease. This dissertation examines leprosy regulations and patient communities to recover the imperial …
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Medical Work on Leprosy at Morgenster Mission and Ngomahuru, colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia),1899-1945
… controlled and treated. Using the case of leprosy disease, this study examines how it was understood, controlled, and treated between 1899, when a leper settlement was established by the medical missionary, Dr John Helm, at Morgenster Mission farm, and 1923, when the Responsible Government …
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Lunacy, leprosy and legislation: medical practice and colonial control at the Cape, c. 1820-1831
… and response to the conditions of 'lunacy' and leprosy within the 1820s. This final chapter uses the focus on these illnesses to act as case studies which underline a number of the themes and factors highlighted in the preceding chapters. As the paper progresses, the inability of both local and …
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The management of malaria and leprosy in Hong Kong and the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1880s-1940s
… Settlement’s management of malaria and of leprosy from the 1880s through the 1940s. This dissertation has two main objectives. Firstly it examines the historical management of malaria and leprosy within specific geo-political contexts. By focusing on British possessions in coastal China, …
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The Impact of Integrated Savings and Credit Groups on Socio Economic Development to People with Leprosy Related Disabilities in Tanzania
… on socio-economic development to people with leprosy related disabilities in Chazi- Morogoro, Nandanga-Lindi and Hombolo- Dodoma urban and Nyabange- Mara. The study had three specific research objectives which were: first, to examine the effect of integrated savings and credit groups in …
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Towards A Practice Theory of Goal-setting: Assessing the theoretical goal-setting of The Leprosy Mission in Nigeria
… unknown. Therefore, this research explored how leprosy project goals were formulated to describe the theoretical practice framework of The Leprosy Mission Nigeria (TLMN). Using a case-study design, ten managers were interviewed individually concerning their goal-setting knowledge, experience and …
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A multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the lived-experience of people with ‘leprosy’ and Hansen’s Disease in medieval England
Hansen's Disease (HD)/’leprosy’ is one of the most culturally-laden diseases in human history, largely attributable to dramatic and debilitating physical lesions. As such, ‘leprosy’, and those inflicted with it, have frequently been the subject of negative generalisations resulting from the …
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Mapping and modeling of neglected tropical diseases in Brazil and Bolivia
… program to create predictive risk maps for leprosy and Schistosomiasis in Brazil and Chagas disease in both Brazil and Bolivia. New disease cases were compiled for leprosy, Schistosomiasis, and Chagas disease from the Brazilian ministry of Health for 2001 to 2009 and the data was stratified …
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Estudo epidemiológico do grau de incapacidade física da hanseníase numa séria histórica de 2010 a 2022 no sul da Bahia
A chronic infectious disease, leprosy has Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) as its etiological agent. It is transmitted through the upper airways of people infected with the multibacillary form, without treatment, which release droplets of the bacillus. M. leprae has a tropism for skin cells and …
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