Volume: 71 - Number: 2 - year 2000
QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000013
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Diana N. J. Lockwood
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000014
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REVIEWS
The value of DALY life: problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years
Trude Arnesen and Erik Nord
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000015
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A woman with leprosy is in double jeopardy
Amy Morrison
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000016
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Relapses in multibacillary leprosy patients: effect of length of therapy
B. K. Girdhar, Anita Girdhar and Anil Kumar
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000017
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The treatment of acute nerve function impairment in leprosy: results from a prospective cohort study in Bangladesh
Richard P. Croft, Peter G. Nicholls, Jan H. Richardus and W. Cairns S. Smith
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000018
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The age-dependent deterioration in light touch sensation on the plantar aspect of the foot in a rural community in India: implications when screening for sensory impairment
P. D. Mitchell and T. N. Mitchell
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000019
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Mycobacterium w vaccine, a useful adjuvant to multidrug therapy in multibacillary leprosy: a report on hospital based immunotherapeutic clinical trials with a follow-up of 1-7 years after treatment
Pankaj Sharma, R. S. Misra, H. K. Kar, Ashok Mukherjee, D. Poricha, Harvinder Kaur, Rama Mukherjee and Rajni Rani
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000020
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Reactional states and neuritis in multibacillary leprosy patients following MDT with/without immunotherapy with Mycobacterium w anti-leprosy vaccine
Pankaj Sharma, R. S. Misra, H. K. Kar, Ashok Mukherjee, D. Poricha, Harvinder Kaur, Rama Mukherjee and Rajni Rani
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000021
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Leprosy elimination at sub-national level
Reinaldo E. Gil Suarez and Clovis Lombardi
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000022
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A scholarship project for the children of leprosy patients in Turkey
T. Saylan, A. Karadeniz, N. Iyier, M. Soydan and D. Pamuk
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000023
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CASE REPORTS
Unusual fixed drug eruption due to rifampicin
A. K. Jaiswal, S. S. Vaishampayan, R. Verma and K. Varada
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.20000024
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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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TEACHING MATERIALS
TB Programme Managers Course • Informatics in clinical practice in developing countries: ' still early days' • International Course on Leprology for Doctors, October 2000 in Valencia, Spain • New website for UNDP-World B ank-WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases • Research 2000 • Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal Publications available free of charge from the Wellcome Trust • Tuberculosis: an interdi sciplinary perspective • Clinical tuberculosis
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NEWS AND NOTES
Mycobacterium bovis: Third International Conference, Cambridge, UK, 1 4- 1 6 August 2000 • Asian Leprosy Congress, Agra, India, November 2000 • ' Drug resistant TB i s spreading worldwide' • Global tuberculosis control: three documents from WHO • New adjuvants for vaccines • Progress in the sequencing of Mycobacterium leprae • AIDS cuts life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa by a quarter • UN warns that AIDS deaths are set to reach record level • A 'bicycle ambulance ' from Uganda • The myth of the spread of leprosy with the Crusades • First human chromosome (22) sequenced • 'American experience with low-dose thalidomide therapy for severe cutaneous lupus erythematosus' • Zinc deficiency; association with reduced immuno-competence and increased rates of serious infectious diseases • Second round of modified leprosy elimination campaign (LEC) in the State of Orissa, India, yields fewer cases • TB Alertf/TB Focus, London, UK • Mini Leprosy Guide and NLO Diary 2000 • image of persons (previously) affected by leprosy • Erratum
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