Technical Report of National Training Course on Leprosy Control
(Yangzhou, 20-27 Nov. 2001)

The National Training Course on Leprosy Control was held in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province from 20 to 27 November, 2001 under the support from NLR.

China is now carrying out its reform in institution structure of disease control. the Center for Disease Control at country, provincial and county levels will be set up by the end of this year. There will be no specialized units for leprosy control everywhere. All leprosy control units will be incorporated in to the local Center for disease Control. Leprosy health workers will be not only engage in leprosy control, but also maybe engage in STI control. So STI knowledge has been included as the part of contents at the training course to meet the requirement of the participants.

About 64 participants from 15 provinces all over China attended the training course. They are actively engaged in leprosy control and most of them come from nearby provinces such as Zhejiang, Anhui, Shangdong, Guangdong, and Jiangsu provinces.

The ten experts engaged in leprosy or STI control from National Center gave the lectures to the participants. The participants were all satisfied with experts' teaching. Electrical teaching tools such as multimedia projector, slide projector and projection instruments were used at the training course. The teaching contents were the recent development of leprosy control in the world, leprosy clinical features and diagnosis, multi-drug therapy on leprosy, disability prevention on leprosy, and the strategy of leprosy control in China. In STI training, the contents such epidemiology of STI in the world and China, The problems and possible solutions to STI control in China, the features, diagnosis and standard treatment for various venereal diseases were taught at the training courses. The teachers often give 5 minutes-discussion with the participants about teaching contents before the end of the class. Many participants studied very hard and asked many good questions. The main teaching materials used at the training course were "Handbook of Leprosy Control", which has been published under the support of NLR and "STI Training Book for STI Health Workers". At the end of training course, a qualified examination on leprosy and STI was conducted for all trainees. The type of examination included medical term interpretation, single choice for question, true and false choice for question and essay questions. All trainees have passed the qualified examination.

An evaluation for the training effectiveness was also carried out by the questionaire at the end of training course. Most of the trainees considered that the contents taught at the course were much helpful to their work in the field and have improved their capability on leprosy and STI control. Every participant is grateful to the NLR for giving him/her an opportunity to study at the training course.