Kala Azar : Emerging Perspectives and Prospects in South Asia

Contents: Foreward. Preface. 1. Epidemiology of leishmaniasis in India/H.P. Thakur. 2. Kala Azar and post Kala Azar dermal leishmaniasis in Bangladesh an epidemiologic overview/Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Shafiul Alam and Muhammad Waliur Rahman and Dinesh Mondal.  3. An overview of visceral lesihmaniasis in Nepal/Murari Lal Das, Lalita Roy and Suman Rijal.  4. Epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka/Nadira D. Karunaweera and Yamuna D. Siriwardana. 5. Kala Azar: a disease of the Subaltern/J.J. Roy Burman. 6. What makes a disease marginal tracing the history of Kala Azar/Anand Zachariah and R. Srivatsan. 7. Changing drug treatment scenario of Kala Azar in Bihar during last four decades/C.P. Thakur.  8. Treatment of PKDL as challenging ask/C.P. Thakur. 9. Research on treatment of visceral leishmaniasis past present and future/Shyam Sunder and Rakesh Arora. 10. Research in diagnostic tools the past present and future/Ruchi Singh, Arpita Kulshrestha and Poonam Salotra. 11. Research in vector control for Kala Azar past present and future/Diwakar Singh Dinesh, Vijay Kumar, Shreekant Kesari, A. Jaya Kumar and Pradeep Das. 12. Need for new therapeutics and drug regimens for Indian Kala Azar/Kalpana Pai, Nutan Jadhav and Balakrishna T. Poduval. 13. HIV/VL co infection relapsing visceral leishmaniasis as an emerging AIDS defining illness/Rama Prosad Goswami. 14. Role of private health care sector in Kala Azar elimination programme/Kanchan Mukherjee. 15. Opportunities for enhanced public private partnerships to remove roadblocks to elimination of Kala Azar from Bangladesh/Kazi M. Jamil. 16. Implementing an innovative data system in a Kala Azar treatment study in rural Bihar/Rhonda Sarnoff, Suresh Kumar and Praveen Pareek. 17. Immunology of visceral leishmaniasis current status and future perspectives/A.P. Isaac Marquez, C.M. Lezama Davila and A.R. Satoskar. 18. Policy issues in Kala Azar in South East Asia/H.P. Thakur. Index.