ATTEMPTS AT INTEGRATING THE TRAINING IN LEPROSY AND TUBERCULOSIS: EXPERIENCE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

EXPERIENCE
First Course
After a year of preparation in cooperation with the International Union Against Tuberculosis (I.U.A.T .) the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and staff of the medical Faculty of Addis Ababa University, the first course on Tuberculosis and tuberculosis Control was conducted at ALER T immediately after the Leprosy Doctors' Course of April 1983. The arrangement allowed for some of the participants working in combined leprosy /TB Control projects in Tanzania and Kenya to stay on to attend the TBC Course.
Most of the participants, however, were doctors or health officers working in TB Control only and they arrived after the Leprosy Course was over. In this first course ALERT provided facilities as regards lecture rooms, laboratory space, board and lodging of the participants, production of some teaching material and transport to and from the TBC Centre, the TBC hospital and the airport of Addis Ababa.