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Posted on 01/02/2011 by
The Enhanced Global Strategy for Further Reducing the Disease Burden Due to Leprosy 2011 – 2015 and its accompanying Operational Guidelines will assist leprosy-endemic countries in developing their own country-specific strategies and plans of action for the next five years to sustain and provide quality services to individuals and communities that need them.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 31/01/2011 by
2011 marks the beginning of a new five-year strategic period for ILEP, the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations. Its latest strategy will help keep it on track towards achieving the Federation’s aspirational goal of a world without leprosy.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, Members, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 17/12/2009 by
DNA taken from the shrouded remains of a man discovered in a tomb next to the Old City of Jerusalem shows him to be the first human proven to have had leprosy, according to Hebrew University researchers and North American and British collaborators.
Categories: Israel, News and Notes
Posted on 17/11/2009 by
The M leprae genome is extremely stable according to findings made by Claire Watson and Diana Lockwood of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Categories: Europe, Technical information
Posted on 16/11/2009 by
In April 2009, an exhibition named "Behind the Wall" was opened within the Hospital. The exhibition, funded by the Health Ministry of Health, is an attempt to remember and preserve the unique human story.
Categories: Israel, News and Notes