Leprosy/Hansen disease: contact tracing and post-exposure prophylaxis: technical guidance

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Technical guidance Leprosy/Hansen disease: Contact tracing and post-exposure prophylaxis “In order to bring down the case detection among leprosy contacts from Point A to Point B, programmes can choose to treat 100 contacts with leprosy and nobody with chemoprophylaxis or provide chemoprophylaxis to all contacts and treat only 43 leprosy patients”. The latter choice is the most obvious for many programmes. This document provides guidance on h

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Introduction ........................................................................................................1 1.1 Importance of active case detection and contact examination ....................1 1.2 Chemoprophylaxis efficacy ..............................................................

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