Objectives and hypothesis
leprosy
ADVERSE EVENT, SECONDARY, LEPROSY
The primary objective of BE-PEOPLE will be to compare effectiveness of BE-PEP to that of SDR-PEP at individual level. As a secondary objective, we will compare overall leprosy incidence between villages randomized to BE-PEP and villages randomized to SDR-PEP. Adverse events will be closely monitored and quantified per study arm.Other objectives are to quantitatively assess anti-PGL-I IgM seropositivity in the population as a proxy for the population burden of 