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Posted on 25/08/2011 by
Published online by The Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology on 20th August 2011, this article discusses the confusion caused by the use of different terminologies with respect to leprosy control in India.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America, Technical information
Posted on 25/07/2011 by
The Global Disability Rights Library has been added to the eGranary, which is an off-line information store, established in 2001, that provides instant access to millions of Internet resources to institutions that do not have Internet access.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 29/06/2011 by
Dignity Regained: Cambodia, is a collection of personal narratives of persons affected by leprosy that has been published this year in both Khmer and English.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Cambodia, China, Europe, Ghana, India, Middle East, Myanmar, News and Notes
Posted on 05/05/2011 by
These Guidelines recognise the major role persons affected by leprosy have to play in leprosy services especially in the areas of advocacy, awareness and rehabilitation as a means to not only empower persons affected by leprosy, but also to change the attitudes and behaviours of others towards those who are affected by leprosy.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 28/04/2011 by
On 28th April 2011 the New England Journal of Medicine published an article revealing that wild armadillos and some persons with leprosy in the southern United States have been found to be infected with the same strain of Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy.
Categories: Technical information, USA