ILEP Activities

The following ILEP Member had been supporting anti-leprosy activities in Malawi up until 2010:

LEPRA Health in Action

LEPRA Health in Action started supporting anti-leprosy work in Malawi the 1960s. Ross Innes was responsible for the proposals of LEPRA Health in Action’s Medical Committee for the leprosy control programme in that country. When LEPRA Health in Action’s transferred responsibility for this work to the National Skin and Leprosy Programme in 1997, the number of patients with leprosy had dropped from 30,000 in 1965 to less than one thousand. 

Besides assisting with the national leprosy control programme, support has included training. This has ranged from provision of new health education materials for training and dissemination of information through school teachers to the community; training in new developments in leprosy and skin diseases and the management of life threatening skin conditions for leprosy control assistants, dermatology, clinical and nursing officers and health surveillance assistants; to training in the management of leprosy reactions and disabilities as well as information on HIV skin manifestations and their management.