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Social stigma as an epidemiological determinant for leprosy elimination in Cameroon

Leprosy has been eliminated as a public health problem in most countries of the world according to the WHO, but the social stigma to the disease is still very high. The present study was performed to investigate the role of social stigma as a determinant for leprosy elimination in a leprosy endemic...

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Autores principales:	Nsagha, Dickson S., Bissek, Anne-Cécile Z.K., Nsagha, Sarah M., Njunda, Anna L., Assob, Jules C.N., Tabah, Earnest N., Bamgboye, Elijah A., Oyediran, Alain Bankole O.O., Nde, Peter F., Njamnshi, Alfred K.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	PAGEPress Publications 2011
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345469/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299051 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2011.e10

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