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Rachel E. Harris, Marina Aloi, Lissy de Ridder, Nicholas M. Croft et al.

INTRODUCTION: Immunomodulators such as thiopurines (azathioprine (AZA)/6-mercaptopurine (6MP)), methotrexate (MTX) and biologics such as adalimumab (ADA) are well established for maintenance of remission within paediatric Crohn's disease (CD). It remains unclear, however, which maintenance medicatio...

ROSEMARY A. CROFT, RICHARD P. CROFT

Tuberculosis (TB) control was introduced into part of the Danish Bangladesh Leprosy Mission's large leprosy control programme in 1994. This was in line with the Government's policy of combining leprosy and TB control. We report our experience with integration. Leprosy case-finding has increased duri...

Mary Cameron, Álvaro Acosta-Serrano, Caryn Bern, Marleen Boelaert et al.

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected vector-borne disease. In India, it is transmitted to humans by Leishmania donovani-infected Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies. In 2005, VL was targeted for elimination by the governments of India, Nepal and Bangladesh by 2015. The elimination strategy consi...

Richard M. Croft

This article aims to discuss the missiological challenges related to Muslim Background Believers in general and especially in the context of Bangladesh. It gives a brief historical background to Bangladesh and to trends in missiology. It discusses post-colonial theology, the Emergent Church and the ...

RICHARD P. CROFT

In this paper, active surveillance is compared with self-reporting as a method of detecting new nerve function loss in leprosy patients who have completed multidrug therapy (MDT). Five hundred and three patients were selected according to new surveillance guidelines in one part of the Danish-Banglad...

Jan Hendrik Richardus, Abraham Meima, van Marrewijk Cj, Richard P. Croft et al.

<b>Background</b>: As part of a larger study of the role of close contacts in the transmission of M. leprae, we explored whether the proportion of newly detected cases with a family history of leprosy differs with different incidence rates of leprosy in a population. <b>Methods</b>: Retrospective an...

A. COLIN McDOUGALL

Welcome to this special issue of Leprosy Review on leprosy elimination campaigns (LECs), which brings together a range of contributions from agencies and individuals in many parts of the world, all with direct experience of control programmes and the use of LECs in different situations.We are immens...

Diana N.J. Lockwood

Editor's ChoiceThis issue has a very clear theme of nerve damage and many different ways the ways it can be studied, prevented and hopefully ameliorated.The issue was not specifically planned this way and I think it reflects the determination of the leprosy community to find solutions for the proble...

J. A. C. Mackie, A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi, Richard O. Clemmer, Nigel Crook et al.

Abstract The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History, by Robert W. Hefner. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. Pp.xx + 278. US $34.95. ISBN 0 520 06933 1 Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh, by Sarah C. White. London: Zed Books, 1992. Pp.192...

Don Handelman, Ruth Finnegan, Ingemar Grandin, Björn Alm et al.

People as Subject. People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia Dominguez. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 238 pp. Literacy and Society, edited by Karen Schous‐boe and Mogens Trolle Larsen. Copenhagen: ...

Hermann G. Stelzner, Bernard R. Works, Alfonso Sherman, Harry E. Stiver et al.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SCENIC DESIGN. By A. S. Gillette. New York: Harper and Row, 1967; pp. 210. $8.50. THE MODERN THEATRE: READINGS AND DOCUMENTS. Edited by Daniel Seltzer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967; pp. v+495. Paper, $4.50. PERSPECTIVES ON DRAMA. Edited by James L. Calderwood and Harold...