World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

Leprosy

                            

The South-East Asia Region has achieved the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem.

One of the important developments in public health in recent years…

 

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What is leprosy

Leprosy is a disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, a bacterium which primarily affects the skin and peripheral nerves…

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FAQs

Burden of leprosy in the Region

As on March 2006, the Regional leprosy prevalence rate (PR) was 0.79 per 10,000 population and the registered case load…

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Call for applications for inclusion in WHO expert roster

Workshop on Leprosy Programme Management for Low endemic Countries, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8-11 June 2009

Contact

Regional Advisor – Leprosy Elimination

World Health Organization

South East Asia Regional Office

I. P. Estate, New Delhi - 110 002

Phone: +91-11-23370804,

Ext: 26117

Fax: +91-11-23378412

 

 

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