A couple of years ago I was talking to a diplomat at the United Nations in New York. His country was one of the leads on the UN’s major conference on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and my goal was to persuade him to include a reference to Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Political Declaration that came out of the conference.

Opinion by Tim Burton, Global Communications Lead at TLM International.

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.

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As the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries related to touch and feeling, Jannine Ebenso of The Leprosy Mission considers why this is a poignant moment for people who have experienced leprosy across the world.

The Leprosy Mission's Global Advocacy Lead's statement, written for the CRPD Conference in 2023