Leprosy Research out the back of a truck

One of the studies we’re currently performing compares the skin reactions of people with leprosy to those who do not have it. Hopefully, this will someday aid in making an easy test to detect early leprosy in people who do not yet have major signs of disease. Therefore we could potentially treat them before major nerve damage and disability occur. But for right now, we are pretty busy trying out the prototypes. In this picture, we are spending Saturday morning in the parking lot of Patan Hospital in Kathmandu. Dr. Min Thapa is checking the temperature etc of a couple enrolled in the study. His younger son and wife, Sagar, watch beside him. Sagar is a CMA serving as a nurse in Anandaban.