Results

In December 2020, the UN hosted its major disability rights conference (COSP13). At this conference, The Leprosy Mission and Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI) hosted a side event that considered the challenges women affected by leprosy face in accessing their rights.
The International Leprosy Congress 2022 is taking place at the HITEX Exhibition Center, HICC Novotel, Hyderabad, India from 08-11 November. The Leprosy Mission will be present throughout the conference through presentations and at the exhibition centre.

At COSP17 The Leprosy Mission is hosting a side event on the right to work and employment for persons with disability in low and middle income countries

The Leprosy Mission is attending the UN's 18th Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the UN's major disability rights conference. This is how we will be contributing.

The Leprosy Mission will be attending COSP17 to represent the voices of persons affected by leprosy and persons affected by NTDs within this crucial disability rights context

These are the winners of the Wellesley Bailey Awards 2024
TLM teams are making more than 50 presentations at ILC 2022. We have teams from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and England making contributing.

We believe we can end the transmission of the disease by 2035 and one of the crucial new tools to help us achieve this is PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis).