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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?
In this article, we aim to equip you with all the information you need if you are worried about leprosy in Florida or elsewhere.
Here are some of the more unusual things about the transmission of the disease.
Details of TLM's work to develop a post-exposure prophylaxis that could prevent leprosy
There is less than a 2 percent chance that a person who has been recently diagnosed with leprosy has passed the disease on to other people in their household.
After thousands of years of the disease ruining lives, we are now on the edge of defeating leprosy. Here are three reasons we believe we can, with the right resources, end the transmission of leprosy by 2035.
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).
Leprosy Peoples’ Organisations must find themselves at the heart of efforts to defeat leprosy in the years to come.
In recent months, we have heard plenty about how contact tracing is a key weapon in the fight to bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. The same is true for leprosy,.
Understanding the transmission of leprosy will help us to combat transmission of the disease, as well as other problems associated with leprosy.
Leprosy is the oldest disease in the world. Sadly, hundreds of thousands of people are still diagnosed with it ever year. We are now entering 2020 and I believe that, in the next 15 years, we will end transmission by 2035.
A look at research in Bangladesh that aims to establish the efficacy of a shorter course of MDT Treatment.
Are we still on course to achieve our goal of zero transmission by 2035? In short, yes.
We want to raise the voice of people affected by leprosy and other NTDs. Their plight could be avoided through the eradication of poverty.
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.
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.