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MEIRU-KPS
South Africa, Service, Hits: 627, Updated:8/9/2016
david chilalika
P.O Box 46 Karonga | +265
Company Profile
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The Karonga Prevention Study (KPS), established in the Karonga District of rural northern Malawi, has focused on epidemiological, clinical and immunological studies of infectious diseases of public health importance. The KPS was designed in 1979, initially as a large cohort study of risk factors for leprosy, covering the entire district of Karonga. In the 1980s,1 two total population surveys were conducted to identify and examine individuals and to collect socio-economic and other household level data. In 1986, the programme assumed responsibility for district-wide tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, and in the same year, KPS became the largest vaccine trial in Africa, with our investigation of the effects of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin and/or killed M.leprae against both leprosy and tuberculosis (TB).2 TB epidemiological studies continue district wide today.3 In 1987, studies were conducted that established the presence of HIV, which has since then become a major theme of our research.