TY - JOUR
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Forecasting
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - India
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Prevalence
KW - Public health
KW - Sentinel Surveillance
KW - Time Factors
KW - Treatment Outcome
AU - Vijayakumaran P
AU - Prasad B
AU - Krishnamurthy P
AB - <p>Multi-drug therapy (MDT) has been successfully implemented in all leprosy endemic countries. Prevalence of leprosy has declined remarkably after the introduction of MDT. Detection of new cases did not show expected decline in many endemic and low endemic situations. Bihar in India started implementing MDT in 1993. The Damien Foundation India Trust (DFIT) supported the leprosy control programme in Bihar by providing a district technical support team (DTST) for each district assigned to DFIT. Effective coverage was achieved in 1996-98. Data for the period 1996-2004 from 10 districts are presented in this paper. The total population in these districts was 29.4 million. Deformity among newly detected leprosy patients declined to 1% indicating effective early case-detection. Intensive new case-detection activities were in vogue contributing to high new case-detection rate (NCDR). The NCDR remained high during the 9-year period reported here and did not show any declining trend.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16927849?dopt=Abstract
CN - VIJAYAKUMARAN 2006
DA - 2006 Apr-Jun
IS - 2
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Multi-drug therapy (MDT) has been successfully implemented in all leprosy endemic countries. Prevalence of leprosy has declined remarkably after the introduction of MDT. Detection of new cases did not show expected decline in many endemic and low endemic situations. Bihar in India started implementing MDT in 1993. The Damien Foundation India Trust (DFIT) supported the leprosy control programme in Bihar by providing a district technical support team (DTST) for each district assigned to DFIT. Effective coverage was achieved in 1996-98. Data for the period 1996-2004 from 10 districts are presented in this paper. The total population in these districts was 29.4 million. Deformity among newly detected leprosy patients declined to 1% indicating effective early case-detection. Intensive new case-detection activities were in vogue contributing to high new case-detection rate (NCDR). The NCDR remained high during the 9-year period reported here and did not show any declining trend.</p>
PY - 2006
SP - 145
EP - 51
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Trends in new case-detection leprosy in Bihar, India.
VL - 78
SN - 0254-9395
ER -