Abstract
Strengthening Health Care Waste Management through Strategic Mentoring and Supportive Supervision in Rural HIV Clinics, South-Eastern Nigeria
Highlights
With 33,000 new cases in 2014, Brazil has the highest incidence of leprosy worldwide
The majority of the participants had heard of ZIKV (90.1%, n 1⁄4 136) and knew it was transmitted via mosquito bites (82.8%, n 1⁄4 125); only 7.9% (n 1⁄4 21) knew that ZIKV was transmitted via sexual contact and 13.9% (n1⁄4 21) knew that it was transmitted via mother to child
18.5% (n 1⁄4 28) of the sample knew that ZIKV was transmitted via day biting mosquitoes and only 9.3% (n 1⁄4 14) knew that using condoms would prevent ZIKV
Summary
With 33,000 new cases in 2014, Brazil has the highest incidence of leprosy worldwide. Incidence fails to decrease while case-finding campaigns mostly evaluate household contacts (HHC’s). In Northeast Brazil several studies have explored risk of exposure to neighbors. Regarding multibacillary leprosy cases, (the primary source of infection) no significant difference was found between Mycobacterium leprae seropositivity rates of HHC’s compared to door neighbors. The foci of infection could be larger than the current definition of HHC’s identifies. The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of seropositivity in individuals living near a leprosy case to those living farther away from a leprosy case
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