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Posted on 10/06/2011 by
A landmark report on disability worldwide indicates that there are over one billion people with significant difficulties in functioning, who are facing substantial barriers in their daily lives.
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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.
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Posted on 06/06/2011 by
DAHW is helping people in Nigeria through community-based rehabilitation projects.
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