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Posted on 13/08/2010 by
Members of the ILEP Technical Commission have developed a toolkit to help assess the quality of leprosy services. This is now available from the ILEP website free of charge in the form of ILEP Technical Bulletin 17.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 12/08/2010 by
Linking community-based rehabilitation (CBR) with disability and rehabilitation and the launch of the WHO, ILO, UNESCO and IDDC guidelines on CBR is the theme of this Conference, which is to be held 26th – 29th October 2010 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Categories: Nigeria, Technical information
Posted on 21/07/2010 by
Nicole Dinnissen has been promoted to the role of Project Co-ordinator for Scientific Research at Netherlands Leprosy Relief, which organisation wishes to improve the effectiveness of leprosy control through its support for fundamental and applied scientific research.
Categories: Members, Technical information
Posted on 16/07/2010 by
Findings from the sentinel sites in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam participating in the sentinel surveillance network to monitor drug resistance in leprosy, set up in 2009 by the Global Leprosy Programme, are published in the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record dated 16th July 2010.
Categories: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Myanmar, Technical information, Vietnam
Posted on 13/07/2010 by
At the end of 1999, LEPRA Health in Action opened a state-of-the-art research centre for infectious diseases in Cherlapally, Hyderabad, funded from £3 million collected through an appeal organised by the UK children’s programme Blue Peter.
It functions in close collaboration with national and international research laboratories as well as other components of LEPRA India to pursue research in clinical, operational, field and basic research studies.
Categories: India, Technical information