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Posted on 31/01/2011 by
2011 marks the beginning of a new five-year strategic period for ILEP, the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations. Its latest strategy will help keep it on track towards achieving the Federation’s aspirational goal of a world without leprosy.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, Members, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America
Posted on 16/12/2010 by
On Wednesday 15th December 2010, the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MoH) and the pharmaceutical laboratory Novartis signed an agreement to transfer the technology for national production of the active agent in clofazimine, one of the medications used in the treatment of leprosy (known as Hansen’s disease in Brazil).
Categories: Brazil, 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 28/08/2009 by
The Enhanced Global Strategy for Further Reducing the Disease Burden due to Leprosy for the five years 2011-2015 and its accompanying set of Operational Guidelines have been published. They can be downloaded from the ILEP website.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, International Collaboration, Middle East, News and Notes, North and Central America, Oceania, South America, Technical information
Posted on 20/05/2008 by
Every year at the World Health Assembly, the Sasakawa Health Prize is awarded to an individual or an institution that has accomplished outstanding work in development of health. This year the award was made to the Movement for the Reintegration of People Affected by Hansen’s Disease (MORHAN) of Brazil. MORHAN’s goal is to educate the community and prevent discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and those who are marginalised.
Categories: Brazil, News and Notes, South America