Report of the national leprosy elimination campaign(NLEC)of Bangladesh, 1999

摘要

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.