Summary report of Workshop on Leprosy in the Caribbean: steps to elimination

ABSTRACT

Under the auspices of the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC/PAHO) and with funding from Aide Aux Lepreux Emmaus Suisse (ALES) a three day workshop was organised on the above subject for member countries of CAREC that have several new leprosy cases per year. Participants included Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and the Turks & Caicos Islands ... The range of expertise available to the meeting included epidemiology, dermatology, physicians involved in the primary health care system, senior public health nurses and leprosy control officers (AU)