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![Profile pictures of the four winners of the award: two men and two women](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/WBA_web_banner_1.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400-c100.png)
These are the winners of the Wellesley Bailey Awards 2024
![TLM representatives outside the UN building in New York](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/IMG_4463.f04bbb8b.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
The Leprosy Mission attended the UN's 16th Conference of State Parties on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability in June 2023.
![Members of OPALCO - DR Congo's Leprosy Peoples' Organisation - laughing together in a meeting](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/RS44440_20220502_DRC_Kinshasa.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
Leprosy Peoples’ Organisations must find themselves at the heart of efforts to defeat leprosy in the years to come.
![Niranjan from Bihar is a happy patient at our Delhi hospital](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/RS40488_LeprosyMissionHospita.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
How does a broader medical focus help us to achieve our goal of zero leprosy? Dr Rajeev Nathan, Medical Superintendent of TLM Community Hospital, New Delhi, explains more.
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We need to put persons affected by leprosy at the centre of all of these conversations. It is not a magic answer, a silver bullet that will solve all our problems, but it is the only way we’ll make real progress.
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The TLM Myanmar team found that the best way to raise awareness, defeat stigma, and increase the number of leprosy cases they found was to hear the stories of persons affected by leprosy.
![Members of the community stand together with baskets containing crabs](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/20191106_115046.4642717e.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
This innovative crab-farming project has been turning heads within the leprosy sector because it has transformed a whole community.
![Phulti was sent to live in a cave by her family, but now she receives care at TLM's Anandaban Hospital. Here she poses for a photo with Ruth, from the TLM staff.](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/Phulti_with_Counselor_Ruth_-_.6ba3a949.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
Ruth and Bishnu from TLM Nepal share some of the lessons they’ve learnt from the frontline of mental health care for persons affected by leprosy.
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We are supporting the Sasakawa Health Foundation's Global Appeal 2022, which is asking for the support of philanthropic foundations across the world.
![A man on a hospital bed in Myanmar looks to his left, at the photographer. He is proudly wearing a Liverpool FC top.](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/RS36460_RS12997_RuthTowell_RE.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
There have been headlines across the world since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic which have seen people compare Covid-19 with leprosy. Any comparisons between these diseases are inaccurate at best and harmful at worst.
![A picture of Amar Timalsina standing outside a building in Nepal](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/20210617_125212.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
This is the story of Amar's divorce, which happened when his wife learnt that he had once been diagnosed with leprosy.
![A portrait photo of Paulino, a village leader in Mozambique](https://leprosymissioninternational.contentfiles.net/media/images/RS38867_10_chiurre_leader_rel.e05eae3e.fill-600x400-c100.jpg)
Across the world there are more than 100 laws that discriminate against people who have experienced leprosy. They are totally unacceptable. Here’s a look at some of the key ways these laws can punish you simply for a curable medical diagnosis.