7 March 2007
Hi Deepak,
Thanks for the valuable information
provided to us online on the disease BT Hansen. if you can
provide us list of hopitals which will give us treatment in
different parts of india, that will be of great help. and also
list of experts. Thank you very much once again. keep doing good
work.
Regards
rathnam
31 July 2006
Dear sunil,
I am too much impressed on the
preparation of the histopathology course. HP photo, it helped me
in diagnosing skin biopsies in Hansan's disease, nice. I want to
purchase one copy of the book with colour photos, can you send it,
I will pay. Tell me any other course. With regards Dr SD Shekde MD
Path I/C Dept Of pathology Shri Ganpati Netralaya Jalna
Maharashtra 431203, India
Comment from
AIFO: The book (Leprosy is in the light skin by Leiker & Nunzi)
is out of print, so we are unable to supply it.
31 March 2006
Hi
I am a health teacher. I teach
health officers and medical students about infectious diseases
and your pictures and explanations (esp the pictures) were of
great help to me.
I hope you and your coworkers more
success and happiness.
Yours sincerely
Dr Shahrokh Izadi, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
P.O. Box 98156-759
Zahedan, Iran
izadish@yahoo.com
15 November
2005, From India
I really
appreciated the leprosy tutorial, and I would like to know the
details of fixation and staining procedures adopted in the
slides that were shown.
Thanks, Sincerely,
Dr A Madan
Sr Pathologist
Jagjivan Ram
Hospital
Mumbai
India
14 November
2005, From India
Thanks and congrats for putting
up the one shop stop for all the information pertaining to
histopathology of leprosy.
Very useful indeed, can at praise
it more.
Kudos!
Sachin
Sachin Kale, MD, Aurangabad,
Maharashtra, India.
25 August 2005
From Anrik, KIT, Netherlands
Some time ago in
July, just before departure for Zambia I received from you a CD
with the AIFO-training as published on the AIFO website. I
promised some feedback, which I send to you just prior to my next
visit to Zambia (September 05). I used the CD during a training to
provincial and district leprosy workers, mostly involved in both
program as well as patient management. The course aimed to be a
restart of a program which had come to a virtual stand-still after
health sector reforms. So the training objectives were related to
basic knowledge and skills. Training tools included a computer
connected to a beamer and part of the time a stand alone desktop
was available to students to practice. Only limited time was spent
behind the monitor with real studying as priority had to be given
to practical exercises (doing and repeating the physical
examination(s) and to exercising basic computer skills. However,
the students were very enthusiastic and impressed by the leprosy
information so beautifully within reach. Therefore I think that
introduction to basic computer skills should be part of the
curriculum if not available. We also used the interactive CD from
the Welcome Trust on Leprosy, a very good CD which, unfortunately,
does not run as well on Windows 200x XP as it does on Windows
95/98!
-In the field an
internet connection is often not available; the course should be
available as well on a CD and include fool-proof instructions on
installation.
-The CD should be
tested in advance on the general configuration. The slides/screens
CD you send me did not always fit well on the screen and therefore
a few clicks were needed all the time to adjust it and to reach
the navigation buttons. I of course realized that you send me the
CD in fact when you were not yet completely finished with it. You
were also pressed by my hurry up request!
-The contents of
the CD were easily recognizable as it was for a great part, based
on ILEP technical guides. I experienced this as a great advantage.
In my opinion, students should know their way in their books,
notes, and also CDs. Only then they will consult their sources
during their work. Therefore I trained with them also the skills
on accessing information (rather then always putting accent only
on knowledge).
During the next
trip to Zambia, which is a follow-up of the July-training, I will
carry the CD with me again.
Thanks again,
best regards from
Anrik
Anrik C.F.
Engelhard MD, SG Comm Med, Senior Public Health Adviser, KIT Royal
Tropical Institute, Development, Policy & Practice, PO Box
95001, 1090 HA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
21 June 2005,
from Satyanarayana, India
I am a teacher in
a medical college in India. I found your resource material on
leprosy very useful for teaching my students. Your visuals are
extremely good. Please keep up the good work. You are doing a
service to the humanity, by putting up excellent materials for
teaching and training purposes.
Dr.K.Satyanarayana,
Krishna district, India
21 April 2005,
from José Carlos, Brazil
Dear Sir:
Thank you very
much for this great gift that is your online course.
It's a amazing
tool for learning and teaching about leprosy.
Greetings,
José Carlos
Azeredo M.D.
CRM PR 3230
Foz do Iguaçu
Paraná Brasil
20 January
2005, from Ruth Baker, Lao
I
just wanted to say thank you for the on-line course, it was very
helpful and will be useful to help teach my staff to teach
self-care to PAL.
Ruth
Baker
Prosthetic and Orthotic
Mentor, COPE. National Rehabilitation Centre, Thanon Khou Vieng,
P O Box
6652,
Vientiane, Lao PDR
19
January 2005, from Mokles, Bangladesh
I really appreciate your on line
training Prog on Leprosy. It is of immense value to primary
Healh Care Provider (PHCP) here in Bangladesh. I shall include
the training with my training project syllabus for the
students of PHCP WHICH I have been RUNNING
SINCE LAST 4 YEARS & YEARLY AROUND 200 HEALTH
WORKERS ARE BEING TRAINed UP/.
Thanks & Regards,
Dr.MOKLES
E-mail: atikakhan@yahoo.com
www.morningbird.8m.com
30
November 2004, from Lechat, France
A remarkable initiative and an
outstanding achievement.
This is something which really make
a difference.
Congratulations.
Michel F.Lechat
17 September
2004, From Paul, USA
I
think these courses are very clear and well-presented. We
should provide links.
There
are two minor points that I would raise, concerning the correct
linkage between text and picture:
In
the course on Diagnosis and Treatment, slide 8 is the start of a
section on testing for loss of sensation in the skin in order to
diagnose leprosy. Subsequent pictures are correct, but slide
8 is actually a picture of someone being tested with a ball-point
for sensory loss in the palm of the hand. There is quite a
lot of confusion about this apparently, but it should be fairly
simple – for diagnosis, one is testing for sensation in
skin patches only, using a very sensitive tool such as a
wisp of cotton wool (some later pictures show this well). In
a known cases of leprosy (i.e. when the diagnosis has been
established), we are interested in nerve function, which can
deteriorate during and after treatment – in these cases, we test
nerve function every month in various ways, including the use of
monofilaments (or a ball-point pen) to test for loss of sensation
in the hands and feet. Thus in slide 8 the text is correct,
but the picture is not right – it should show a skin patch being
tested.
In
the course on Self-care for POD, there is not much to quibble
about, as the overall message is very good. However, I noted
that slide 16 is talking about self-care of hands to prevent
wounds and stiffness, while the picture is actually a health
worker doing a voluntary muscle test (VMT), to test the integrity
of the ulnar nerve.
I’m
not an expert in histopathology, so cannot comment on the detail,
but this course seems to be clearly presented and the authors are
well-known experts.
I
hope this is helpful.
Paul
Dr
Paul Saunderson, Leprosy
Consultant, American
Leprosy Missions, 1
ALM Way, Greenville, SC 29601, USA, Web:
www.leprosy.org
Note:
Following this comment, appropriate changes were made in the two
courses.
