Leprosy Elimination Monitoring (LEM): Guidelines for Monitors (2000) Multi-Drug Therapy(MDT) is recognised as a major technological improvement in leprosy control. Assessment of interventions becomes particularly important when considering the leprosy elimination goal. The purpose of monitoring is to assist decision makers and programme managers to assess the progress towards leprosy elimination, to make a plan of action, to implement it and to measure its impact. Monitoring a minimum set of indicators that describes the MDT services will serve the purpose. This page provides access to the full-text WHO manual in downloadable PDF files. The Portuguese version of this manual was updated by PAHO-Brazil in 2003 for use in the Brazilian monitoring exercise. (4/Jul/2003) In English (7.89k)
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Multi-Drug Therapy(MDT) is recognised as a major technological improvement in leprosy control. Assessment of interventions becomes particularly important when considering the leprosy elimination goal. The purpose of monitoring is to assist decision makers and programme managers to assess the progress towards leprosy elimination, to make a plan of action, to implement it and to measure its impact. Monitoring a minimum set of indicators that describes the MDT services will serve the purpose. This page provides access to the full-text WHO manual in downloadable PDF files. The Portuguese version of this manual was updated by PAHO-Brazil in 2003 for use in the Brazilian monitoring exercise. (4/Jul/2003)