Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In 2013, Lepra Bangladesh (a non-government organization) and the National Leprosy Programme of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh implemented a 3 years project entitled "2015 and Beyond: Poverty Reduction through Strengthened Health Systems". The aims of this Health System Strengthening (HSS) project were to improve quality of leprosy services through service delivery, capacity development, curriculum development, improved collaboration, coordination, operational research and knowledge sharing to identify and treat leprosy in order to contribute to strengthen existing health systems. We evaluated the changes in knowledge of primary and community level healthcare providers about cardinal signs, course of leprosy

SUBMITTER: Kabir H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827226 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature