Resources
Abstracts
Nerve Function Assessment: Which Nerves, When and Why?
Wim Brandsma: brandsma.wim@gmail.com
Click on link and see abstract O-37 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Leprosy and HIV Two Case Presentations
Elizabeth Bizuneh and Fuad Teman: leprosytb@telecom.net.in
Click on link and see abstract O-42 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Management of ENL: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of 94 Patients Treated with Prednisolone and/or Thalidamide
Wim Brandsma et al: brandsma.wim@gmail.com
Click on link and see abstract O-50 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Absence of Late Relapse in Cohort of Patients with Multibacillary Leprosy
Paul Saunderson, Elizabeth Bizuneh and Ruth Leekassa: psaunderson@leprosy.org
Click on link and see abstract O-131 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Prevalence of Disability in New Leprosy Cases Diagnosed at ALERT during 2006-2007
Kassa Elizabeth, Fuad Temam, Elizabeth Bizuneh, Ruth Leekassa and Lawrence Yamuah: Elizabeth_kassa@yahoo.com
Click on link and see abstract O-136 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Is Leprosy Under Control in Ethiopia?
Arega Kassa
Click on link and see abstract O-186 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Skin Lesions in Proximity to Nerves at Risk in Leprosy: A Reason to Start Immunosuppressive Treatment and an Indicator to the Transmission of Leprosy?
Wim J Brandsma, Bishva Bhattarai and AMA Anderson: brandsma.wim@gmail.com
Click on link and see abstract P-58 in 17th International Leprosy Congress Abstracts Publication
Women's self-help group. Image: Ernst Hisch, DAHW
Articles
Knowledge and attitude of health professionals in relation to the integration of leprosy control into the general health service in Ethiopia
Mengistu K Asnake, Mohammed Ahmed, Timotiwos Genebo, Bereket Mekebib
International Journal of Leprosy and other Tropical Diseases, September 2000
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Patterns of health-seeking behaviour amongst leprosy patients in former Shoa Province, Ethiopia
Assefa Amenu, June Nash, Tefara Tamiru, Peter Byass
The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 2000; 14 (1):43-47
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The experience of self-care groups with people affected by leprosy: ALERT, Ethiopia
C Benbow, T Tamiru
Lepr Rev (2001) 72, 311-321
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Which physical signs help most in the diagnosis of leprosy? A proposal based on experience in the AMFES project, ALERT, Ethiopia
P Saunderson, G Groenen
Lepr Rev (2000) 71, 34-42
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Progress in research towards a world without leprosy. Report of a WHO meeting in Ethiopia, February 1988
P Roche, H Dockrell, P Brennan
Lepr Rev (1998) 69, 151-159
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Eye disease in Multibacillary leprosy patients at the time of their leprosy diagnosis: findings from the Longitudinal Study of Ocular Leprosy (LOSOL) in India, the Philippines and Ethiopia
P Courtright, E Daniel, Sundarrao, J Ravanes, F Mengistu, M Belachew, R V Celloria, T Ffytche
Lepr Rev (2002) 73, 225-238
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Small loan schemes: the experience of Ethiopia
M Abera, M Shanko
Lepr Rev (2000) 71, 517-520
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Papers outlining the findings revealed by the ALERT MDT Field Evaluation Study (AMFES) in Ethiopia were published by Leprosy Review in its September 2000 issue.
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The beginning of ALERT
P W Brand
Lepr Rev (1957), Supplement 1:1-8
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The role of support groups in raising the self-concept of people affected by leprosy: an evaluation study
Asia Pacific Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, 2003, Vol 14, No1
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Delay in presentation and start of treatment in leprosy patients: a case-control study of disabled and non-disabled patients in three different settings in Ethiopia
W Bekri, S Gebre
International Journal of Leprosy, 1999, 66: 1-9
The following articles all appear in A Special Issue on Leprosy in Collaboration with the Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) and the All-Africa Leprosy TB Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (ALERT), Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
Ethiopian Medical Journal, October 2007, Volume 45, Supplement 1
- The A9 Study: The Longest Cohort Study in the History of Leprosy – An Overview
M Elizabeth Duncan - Growth and Development of Children of Mothers with Leprosy and Healthy Controls
M Elizabeth Duncan et al - Thermal Threshold Tester, A Useful Tool for Detection of Very Early Nerve Damage – Determination of Normal Values in a Healthy Population Unexposed to Mycobacterium Leprae and Its Application in the A9 Study
M Elizabeth Duncan et al - Facial Burning in Women with Leprosy, Physiological or Pathological?
M Elizabeth Duncan et al - Health Profile of Highland Ethiopians in a Small Town in the South-Western Part of the Country
M Elizabeth Duncan et al - Peripheral Nerves and Nerve Function in Highland Ethiopians
M Elizabeth Duncan et al