Leprosy
Establishment of a Clinical Trial Infrastructure
To build capacities for the conduct of interventional clinical trials in the field of leprosy in West Africa, we collaborate with the National Leprosy Control Programme in Ghana on the establishment of a GCP-compliant clinical research infrastructure for leprosy-focussed clinical studies. For this purpose, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ghana Health Service and the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine was signed by both institutions.
REPROSLEP
The aim of this study is to describe the clinical and demographic aspects of patients with leprosy and leprosy reactions attending the Ankaful Leprosy and General Hospital, the main referral centre for leprosy in Ghana. The study is devided in a prospective and a retrospective part.
LEPCROS
In collaboration with the National Leprosy Control Programme of the Ghana Health Service, we work on a retrospective registry-based analysis of surveillance data from the National Leprosy Programme in Ghana to evaluate of Ghana’s progress towards the targets of the World Health Organisation's Global Leprosy Strategy.
