Recipients of loans for income generation, Guyana. Image: Sunil Deepak, AIFO
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Of all the South American states Brazil remains the most endemic for leprosy. With around 50,000 new cases per year in recent years Brazil remains the second most endemic country after India. Much smaller numbers (in the tens or hundreds) are detected in the surrounding countries of Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Guyana and Paraguay. In Brazil much progress has been made in both training and coverage of services and the focus of the National Leprosy Control Programme is now on priority states and districts where most new cases are detected. An important impact was made in tackling stigma by decreeing that the use of the term leprosy be outlawed and replaced with ‘Hansen’s disease’.
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Posted on 20 May 2008 by
Every year at the World Health Assembly, the Sasakawa Health Prize is awarded to an individual or an institution that has accomplished outstanding work in development of health. This year the award was made to the Movement for the Reintegration of People Affected by Hansen’s Disease (MORHAN) of Brazil. MORHAN’s goal is to educate the community and prevent discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and those who are marginalised.
Categories: Brazil, News and Notes, South America
Posted on 28 August 2009 by
The Enhanced Global Strategy for Further Reducing the Disease Burden due to Leprosy for the five years 2011-2015 and its accompanying set of Operational Guidelines have been published. They can be downloaded from the ILEP website.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America, Technical information
Posted on 16 July 2010 by
Findings from the sentinel sites in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam participating in the sentinel surveillance network to monitor drug resistance in leprosy, set up in 2009 by the Global Leprosy Programme, are published in the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record dated 16th July 2010.
Categories: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Myanmar, Technical information, Vietnam