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Posted on 18/09/2007 by
An interview with Dr Pieter Feenstra, Head of the Leprosy Unit, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and outgoing Chairman of the ILEP Technical Commission.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 10/09/2007 by
Richard de Soldenhoff is the Netherlands Leprosy Relief's Regional Medical Officer for Eastern Indonesia. Always a "field man", he completes 27 years in leprosy control when he retires at the end of this year.
Categories: Field Activities
Posted on 03/08/2007 by
"It would be nice to say that Graham Greene just appeared one day in Yonda, the leprosy settlement in the Equateur Province of the then Belgian Congo where I was the doctor, stepping off the gangway of the bishop's riverboat as Querry does in A Burnt-Out Case. But Greene did not come unannounced."
Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Europe, News and Notes
Posted on 01/08/2007 by
Il y a un jour que je suis arrivé à Gihofi, province Rutana au sud du pays, frontalière avec la Tanzanie. On est ici avec une équipe du Programme National Lèpre et Tuberculose, PNLT, pour effectuer une formation/campagne de dépistage actif de la lèpre.
Categories: Field Activities
Posted on 01/08/2007 by
After an invigorating start to the day (walk, bath, breakfast, a dose of the news), I am ready to start work in earnest at 9 a.m. I meet briefly with my Deputy Directors for Finance/Administration and Medical/Technical matters and our Administrative Officer to discuss the day's programme and a few pending matters.
Categories: Field Activities