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Posted on 24/11/2008 by
Evidence of resistance to rifampicin, the most important component of MDT, which is used to treat and cure people with leprosy, has prompted the World Health Organization’s Global Leprosy Programme to embark on an initiative to set up a collaborative sentinel surveillance system to monitor drug resistance in leprosy.
Categories: International Collaboration, Technical information
Posted on 06/11/2008 by
An International Congress on Disability and Development, taking place 2nd – 3rd December in Berlin.
Categories: Europe, International Collaboration
Posted on 27/10/2008 by
The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) has started to prepare the strategic directions for the global leprosy control activities during the next five-year period (2011-2015).
Categories: International Collaboration, Technical information
Posted on 24/10/2008 by
The Nippon Foundation and the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation were jointly awarded the 2008 Damien Dutton Award at a ceremony on 10th October 2008.
Categories: Members, News and Notes
Posted on 17/10/2008 by
The huge gaps in health care today must be bridged by following the deliberate policy of primary health care. This is the strategy advocated in the World Health Report 2008: Now More Than Ever, which was launched on 14th October 2008.
Categories: News and Notes