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Posted on 4 February 2010 by
The Global Leprosy Programme’s home page has been given a higher profile within WHO’s South East Asia Regional Office’s website. Key up-to-date technical documents and strategies are now much more visible and more readily accessible.
Categories: Events, International Collaboration, News and Notes
Posted on 3 February 2010 by
15 world business leaders signed a message proclaiming their support for the principle of social integration and economic empowerment of people affected by leprosy in Mumbai on 25th January 2010 in the lead-up to World Leprosy Day on 31st January 2010.
Categories: International Collaboration, News and Notes
Posted on 18 January 2010 by
World Leprosy Day was created in 1954 by Raoul Follereau “so that people affected by leprosy could be cared for like all others who are ill and so that that those in good health could be cured of their absurd and often criminal fear of this disease and those who are affected by it”.
Categories: International Collaboration, News and Notes
Posted on 5 January 2010 by
The most recent issue of Health Exchange, the magazine of Healthlink Worldwide, focuses on the right to health.
Categories: International Collaboration, News and Notes
Posted on 3 December 2009 by
“Experience shows that when persons with disabilities are empowered to participate and lead the process of development, the entire community opens up” says UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon in his Message on International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Categories: International Collaboration, News and Notes