Our mobile clinics take medical care to where the need is, travelling around districts where there is a need for leprosy support, but no local provision. Providing a combination of medical expertise and pastoral care, they are a vital part of TLM’s mission.

Our advocacy and communication team in India is leading the way in leprosy advocacy work worldwide.

Within the leprosy sector, governments are a crucial and necessary partner on our journey to a world without leprosy. But what is expected from governments?

Our mobile clinics in India take medical care to where it is needed most, particularly to people who would struggle to reach a hospital.

In some places Covid-19 has slowed down the work, in other places it has completely stopped the work.

Md. Kamal Uddin is one of four individuals to win the Wellesley Bailey Award in 2024. This is his story.

A researcher in India, Professor Pawan Agarwal, has been looking closely at ulcers caused by diabetes. These ulcers are very similar in character to leprosy ulcers, and this researcher saw that perhaps sensation could be restored through surgery.

The action doesn’t need to be as drastic as with Covid-19, but the right action could end the disease in our lifetime.

A look at a project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is piloting an integrated approach to controlling leprosy, Buruli ulcer and yaws.

Leprosy is the oldest disease known to man, but we believe that we can be the generation that ends it for good. We believe that there will be no more cases of leprosy after 2035. But we need your support. Here’s how you can help.

Our team runs a mobile prosthetics unit that travels around the country providing medical care to people who have lost their limbs, either through leprosy, or as a result of landmines that litter the country.

What does it mean to formalise inner wellbeing in our work this way and how could you do it too?

An overview of our advocacy work in Bangladesh

Many people think of leprosy as an ancient disease. That is both wrong and right. It is both an ancient disease and a modern disease.

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.

Karima has been learning to live amidst the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. For her and her family it has become a question of survival.

We live in a world of devastating inequality. Covid-19 has made that painfully clear. It has to stop.

Are we still on course to achieve our goal of zero transmission by 2035? In short, yes.