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Posted on 03/06/2009 by
Türkan Saylan, a University Professor, who was credited with ridding Turkey of leprosy, died after a long battle with cancer in Istanbul on 18th May 2009, aged 74.
Posted on 01/06/2009 by
“Reduction of the rate of new cases with grade-two disabilities per 100 000 population by at least 35% by the end of 2015, compared to the baseline at the beginning of 2011” is the new global target for leprosy.
Categories: International Collaboration, Technical information
Posted on 29/05/2009 by
Just over a quarter century of trends in cases of leprosy in Yemen is reported in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record published on 22nd May 2009.
Categories: Technical information, Yemen
Posted on 28/05/2009 by
A team of Indian and US scientists has reported in the interactive on-line peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE finding signs of leprosy in a skeleton buried about 4000 years ago in northwest India.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 27/05/2009 by
Dr Amal Al Jowder, Acting Director of Health Promotion Directorate of the Ministry of Health of Bahrain, was awarded the Sasakawa Health Prize for 2009 during the 62nd Wold Health Assembly in Geneva.
Categories: News and Notes