Rapid Village Survey and Active case finding for leprosy control in Banthaen, Chaiyaphum

Abstract

In the past 3 consecutive years (2015-2017), there were new lepromatous patients in Banthaen ,Chaiyaphum province every year. Especially we found 7-years old boy who contact from his father. So our team need to concentrate in control and eradicate disease follow ‘WHO 5-year global leprosy strategy’(1) for leprosy elimination. We adjust to do both rapid village survey (RVS) and active case finding in neighborhood who live within 50 metres from index case house in Wunghin village where we found last case on 2017. Thirty-one patients who have skin lesion were examined. One diabetes patient with erythematous skin patch without itch and tender lesion at left forearm was suspected.