+ Leprosy: Fifty Years of Progress
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The first technical issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, published in 1922, was dedicated to leprosy. During the intervening SO years considerable progress has been made in understanding the disease, leading to benefit for the patient and more effective control. Movement away from institutionalization and toward ambulatory care for patients plus new and effective treatment methods, has changed the picture from one of hopeless dispair to one where cure is expected when the disease is diagnosed and treated early. Such treatment also reduces infectiousness of the patient and the general reservoir of infection. In short, administrative methods and procedures are now available which, if properly applied, will control and could ultimately eradicate leprosy.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003