TY - JOUR
KW - Health
KW - leprosy
KW - Patients
KW - Public health
KW - Therapy
AU - Noordeen S K
AB - Multidrug therapy (MDT) is a major advance in leprosy control and has raised hopes among patients, health workers, and programme managers alike. Where its implementation is vigorous and sustained, the results are extremely gratifying, but problems, both technical and operational, need to be constantly reviewed and solutions found. The opportunities to markedly reduce leprosy in the next decade are immense, but it remains to be seen whether these opportunities are utilized so that leprosy will ultimately be eliminated as a public health problem.
BT - Nigerian Journal of Medicine
DA - 1991/06//
IS - supplement
J2 - Niger.J Med.
LA - eng
N1 - This article is also published in the Bulletin of the WHO 69 (1991) nr. 3, p. 263-269
N2 - Multidrug therapy (MDT) is a major advance in leprosy control and has raised hopes among patients, health workers, and programme managers alike. Where its implementation is vigorous and sustained, the results are extremely gratifying, but problems, both technical and operational, need to be constantly reviewed and solutions found. The opportunities to markedly reduce leprosy in the next decade are immense, but it remains to be seen whether these opportunities are utilized so that leprosy will ultimately be eliminated as a public health problem.
PY - 1991
SP - 24 
EP -  28
T2 - Nigerian Journal of Medicine
TI - Leprosy control through multidrug therapy (MDT)
ER -