Marring leishmaniasis: The stigmatization and the impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pakistan and Afghanistan

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kassi, Masoom ^a   Kassi, Mahwash ^a   Afghan, Abaseen Khan ^a   Rehman, Rabeea ^a   Kasi, Pashtoon Murtaza ^a  

^a BOLAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFGHANISTAN; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; PAKISTAN; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 56149099509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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