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Posted on 7 August 2009 by
A field visit to Nimba County has revealed that much is to be done to support people affected by leprosy in this country and DAHW, the ILEP Co-ordinator for anti-leprosy activities in Liberia, is appealing to ILEP Members and other organisations to assist.
Categories: Africa, Field Activities, International Collaboration, Liberia
Posted on 8 June 2009 by
The Leprosy Mission Southern Africa has long experience of the realities of the daily lives not only of people affected by leprosy, but also of those with disabilities as a result of other conditions. Since the prevalence of leprosy in South Africa is low, a survey was conducted in 2006 and 2007 with the purpose of discovering gaps in services for people with general physical disability in rural areas.
Categories: South Africa
Posted on 29 May 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 19 January 2009 by
Jeannot E. was a leprosy patient. His experience of this disease is at once both singular and so common that the telling of it could be used to promote understanding of what it is like to get leprosy and to be cured of it.
Categories: Cameroon, Field Activities
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