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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 1 February 2010 by
As of today, 1st February 2010, Mr Jim Oehrig is Acting Chief Executive Officer of American Leprosy Missions, following the departure at the end of January 2010 of
Mr Chris Doyle after fifteen years’ service.
Categories: Members
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 12 January 2010 by
Le Niger a atteint en 2002 le seuil d’élimination de la lèpre, fixé par l’OMS à moins d’un cas pour 10 000 habitants et a consolidé depuis les résultats épidémiologiques de la lèpre aux différents niveaux.
Categories: Niger