Posted on 13/12/2011 by Dr Jerry Joshua

The message on my mobile phone was brief and tersely worded – ‘Dr Fritschi: expired in Vellore. Funeral details will follow’. The words took me twenty-five years back in time – to a rural hospital in Tamil Nadu, 200 kilometres from Madras. I had just joined...

 

 

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Categories: News and Notes


Posted on 03/11/2011 by Dr Paul Saunderson, ALM

Dr Paul Saunderson, Medical Director of American Leprosy Missions, reports on this summit held 17th – 18th October about the leprosy vaccine research project ALM have been funding at the Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle.

 

 

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Categories: Members, Technical information


Posted on 31/10/2011 by ILEP

The World Medical Association adopted a Declaration at its 62nd General Assembly in Montevideo, Uruguay, in October 2011, recommending that all National Medical Associations defend the right of people affected by leprosy and their family members to be treated with dignity and free from any kind of prejudice or discrimination.

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Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America


Posted on 30/10/2011 by ILEP

At their meeting in October, 2011 the ILEP Board approved an ambitious Research Strategy for the ILEP Federation. This had been formulated by the outgoing ILEP Technical Commission and its promotion and follow-up will now be a priority for the new ILEP Technical Commission whose eight members were selected by the ILEP Board during the same meeting.

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Categories: News and Notes, Technical information


Posted on 29/10/2011 by ILEP

The recent meeting of the ILEP Board selected eight persons, from 21 very strong candidates, to form the next ILEP Technical Commission.

 

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