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Posted on 15/05/2013 by
Colleagues at Infolep, the knowledge centre for leprosy and related subjects, have collaborated with staff at Source to produce a keylist on leprosy and disability to help raise awareness of leprosy as a disabling disease, all of which related disabilities are preventable.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 14/05/2013 by
“This is an important time for Kalaupapa as we work to establish the Kalaupappa Memorial and to work with family members to ensure that the people of Kalaupappa will always be the interpreter of their own history. These awards are an acknowledgement of the importance of this history”, says Anwei Law, sharing the news with the ILEP Secretariat that her book has received the Samuel M Kamakau Book of the Year Award in recognition of the significance of the story of Kalaupappa as told by its people.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 10/05/2013 by
“Overall, our study demonstrates a significant association of TAP1 polymorphisms with leprosy outcome and TAP1 may be a contributing factor in leprosy”, noted co-authors Vidyagouri Shinde and Patrick Marcinek in an article recently published in the journal Human Immunology. Leprologists at the Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, here explain in layman’s terms the importance of their findings. They conclude: “There is a dire need to validate all susceptibility genes together in populations of different ethnicities in follow-up studies”.
Categories: India, Technical information
Posted on 09/05/2013 by
The Report of the Secretary-General on Mainstreaming Disability in the Development Agenda: Towards 2015 and Beyond is now available on the website of the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council. “It presents selected examples of advances made at the international, regional and national levels in mainstreaming disability in evolving policy frameworks for inclusive development. The report concludes that, in order to advance such policy frameworks further, follow-up strategies must be introduced at all levels and suggests elements for inclusion in such strategies. The report provides specific recommendations on action at the national, regional and global level to promote the effective implementation of the outcome of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on Disability and Development, specifying actions for Member States, the UN system and all other stakeholders.”
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 07/05/2013 by
One of the key recommendations in the current global leprosy strategy is to identify and examine on a voluntary basis household contacts of patients newly diagnosed with leprosy as it is known that they are at a significantly greater risk of getting leprosy than contacts who are not living in the same household. Many have asked for a definition of a “contact” or “household contact” and even wondered whether other contacts should be included. A recent doctoral thesis examines the effect of different social contact patterns, and those of males and females, on transmission of leprosy. It also explores aspects of poverty that might put individuals at greater risk of getting leprosy and the role of general socio-economic development in reducing numbers of new cases of leprosy.
Categories: Technical information