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The longest most stigmatizing disease to plague humankind, leprosy is now thankfull on its way out. The technological and medical breakthrough accomplished by multidrug therapy along with a massive global logistical effort to reach the new therapy free of cost to people everywhere has brought the world within a stone's throw of accomplishing the medical target of elimination of leprosy by this millennium's end. Dealing with human world of leprosy beyond pharmacopoeia and epidemiology, this book should be rewarding reading for anyone seeking to connect with the human face of leprosy.

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