01725nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001500055653002100070653001100091653003000102653001200132653001900144100001400163245008400177856005900261300001000320490000700330050001500337520112900352022001401481       1999                            d  c1999 Dec10aBangladesh10aHealth Promotion10aHumans10aInternational Cooperation10aleprosy10aMass Screening1 aAhmed J U00aReport of the national leprosy elimination campaign (NLEC) of Bangladesh, 1999.  uhttp://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1999/v70n4/pdf/v70n4a13.pdf  a472-90 v70  aAHMED 19993 a<p>A national leprosy elimination campaign (NLEC) was implemented country-wide in all the 64 districts of Bangladesh for 6 days from 7 to 12 February 1999. The campaign was jointly funded by the Government of Bangladesh (GOB)/World Bank (US$250,000) and the remaining US$381,000 was provided by other international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). A total of 44,400 health workers and community volunteers were directly involved in the campaign. In all, 60,878 suspected leprosy cases were identified during the campaign, of whom 31,433 were examined and 2435 were confirmed as leprosy cases. The remaining suspects are expected to be examined within the next 2 months. Details of the new cases detected are given in Table 8. The impact of NLEC has been significant, the number of cases detected during NLEC being 20% of the annual case detection in 1998. About 52% of the total population were directly contacted through a rapid house-to-house survey and over 90% of the population was targeted through extensive use of electronic/print media and various information, education and communication (IEC) activities.</p>  a0305-7518