Hansens Disease Leprosy

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The National Hansens Disease Programs
(NHDP) Offers Free Training for Health Centers
Hansens Disease (Leprosy) Awareness in the U.S.
Leprosy? In the U.S.?

• 11 NHDP Ambulatory Care Clinics
• - Manage 3000 patients
• 554 private sector physicians
• - Manage 791 patients

U.S. Leprosy patients are mostly immigrants

• Immigrants often indigent / underinsured
• Immigrant relocation dynamic changing
• Away from ports cities
• Away from NHDP ACP Clinics
• Where the jobs are
• Where there is a cultural identity

NHDP offers training to Health Centers in

• Making a presumptive diagnosis of leprosy
• Confirming the diagnosis
• Management of a routine case of leprosy
• - Free anti-leprosy drugs
• - Referral for complications of leprosy

(http//www.hrsa.gov/hansens)