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Posted on 15 October 2008 by
Four months after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, through the efforts of The Leprosy Mission International staff to identify and provide assistance and rehabilitation to persons with disability, the true scale of the needs are being uncovered.
Categories: Asia, Field Activities, International Collaboration, Members, Myanmar
Posted on 23 September 2008 by
This new website calls on individuals and concerned organisations to spread the importance of including everybody, including people affected by disability, in development plans.
Categories: International Collaboration, News and Notes
Posted on 11 September 2008 by
Fatumah belongs to the Gende Kore Women’s Self-help Group of ex-leprosy patients. Fatumah is around fifty years old and like most women in the Group has not had an education. Under the leadership of colleagues from Bisidimo she and more than 30 other poor country women have set up a successful economic co-operative.
Categories: Ethiopia, Field Activities
Posted on 15 August 2008 by
The World Health Organization’s 15th August 2008 issue of the Weekly Epidemiological Record is on leprosy and contains the most recently available figures about cases of leprosy around the world.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 13 August 2008 by
Former leprosy patients, who were forcibly confined to the remote Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai, received a long-awaited apology from the State legislature.
Categories: News and Notes, North and Central America, USA