How we are working towards zero disability
Under our 2025-2030 Global Strategy, we are working towards a goal of ensuring persons affected by leprosy will have prompt and appropriate access to services to prevent and manage leprosy disabilities .
To succeed in this mission for leprosy disability, our Members will work together on a breakthrough area that will be collectively funded:
Research, develop, and implement appropriate treatment regimens to address leprosy-related complications, especially treating leprosy reactions.
Beyond this, our Member countries will focus on a set of initiatives that are designed to ensure prompt and appropriate access to services to prevent and manage leprosy disabilities.
Each country will work towards the initiatives that will have the most impact in their context. We will work with local and national governments, other service providers, and persons affected by leprosy to ensure:
Persons affected by leprosy have access to health and rehabilitation services
Health practitioners have the necessary expertise to manage leprosy complications
Our programmes follow best practice in treatment of leprosy complications and rehabilitation of leprosy-related impairments
Data and evidence are collected and used to determine existing provision of services and to increase services for complications and disability management
Strengthen health education to ensure that patients adhere to the long treatment protocol and know what complications to look out for
Our staff, volunteers, and persons affected by leprosy know how to support inner wellbeing
Persons affected by leprosy in the communities where we work can be referred, where appropriate, to mental health services
Community-level physical and emotional care for persons affected by leprosy is provided. This includes building the capacity of organisations of persons affected by leprosy
The Church and faith-based organisations welcome persons affected by leprosy into their communities and support their health and rehabilitation services