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Posted on 1 June 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 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 17 February 2009 by
Since the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted resolution 8/13 on 18th June 2008 various steps have been taken to ensure that in future discriminatory behaviour towards people affected by leprosy and their family members will be both challenged and changed.
Categories: News and Notes, Technical information
Posted on 12 December 2008 by
The WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record of 12th December 2008 contains additional data on cases of leprosy in some countries, whose information could not be included in the global leprosy report published in the WER of 15th August this year.
Categories: News and Notes, Technical information
Posted on 24 November 2008 by
Evidence of resistance to rifampicin, the most important component of MDT, which is used to treat and cure people with leprosy, has prompted the World Health Organization’s Global Leprosy Programme to embark on an initiative to set up a collaborative sentinel surveillance system to monitor drug resistance in leprosy.
Categories: International Collaboration, Technical information