Basic information, Preface, Introduction

The beginning of ALERT

Historical outline of ALERT

The sponsors and ALERT: expectations and obligations

Teaching leprosy: the need for knowledge and for the development of attitudes to work

Functions of an external medical advisory committee

The Kellersberger memorial lecture

Functions of the Hospital in a Leprosy Training Institution

Concepts behind the development of multiple drug therapy regimens in leprosy

Multiple drug therapy: implications for field work and training at ALERT

Basic clinicians: on the marriage between clinicians and basic scientists at AHRI/ALERT

Prospects for ALERT in the African Context