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Posted on 08/06/2011 by
The WHO, ILO, UNESCO, and International Disability and Development Consortium’s Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Guidelines, which are designed to help empower persons with impairments by supporting their inclusion in all services, are now available in French from the WHO website.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 03/06/2011 by
The World Health Organization’s Global Leprosy Programme has been monitoring drug resistance in leprosy through a Sentinel Surveillance Network that it set up in 2008. A summary of test results obtained during 2010 can be found in the 3rd June 2011 issue of WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record: WER 8623.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 01/06/2011 by
Publication of research findings into probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States in the New England Journal of Medicine on 28th April 2011 has attracted press coverage around the world, much of which could be confusing. To gain a clearer understanding of that study, members of the ILEP Technical Commission were asked to provide a commentary.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 27/05/2011 by
The World Report on Disability will be launched at the United Nations Building in New York on 9th June by the WHO Director-General and a senior official from the World Bank.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 25/05/2011 by
On 16th May 2011, the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom and the International Disability and Development Consortium held an event to launch the UN, ILO, UNESCO, IDDC Community-Based Rehabilitation Guidelines first unveiled at the Fourth CBR African Network Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, at the end of October 2010.
Categories: Technical information