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The President of Brazil has led tributes to the Belfast “leprosy doctor” William Woods who had famously battled to help the indigenous communities affected by the disease for decades.

The President of Brazil has led tributes to the Belfast “leprosy doctor” William Woods who had famously battled to help the indigenous communities affected by the disease for decades.

The President of Brazil has led tributes to the Belfast “leprosy doctor” William Woods who had famously battled to help the indigenous communities affected by the disease for decades.

The BU-LABNET will hold its fifth annual meeting in Accra, Ghana, on 23-25 October 2023. This hybrid (physical and virtual) meeting is expected to bring together about 60 participants (network member laboratories, partners and skin disease experts) to take stock of progress since the last meeting in October 2022 and identify ways to implement the integrated control and management of skin diseases in line with the WHO NTD road map 2021–2030 and the Skin NTD Framework.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, on Monday said India is making strides in stamping out leprosy as cases are declining year after year.

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya virtually addresses National Anti-Leprosy Day

Bharati Pravin Pawar said that the annual new case detection rate per 1,00,000 population has come down from 9.73 in 2014-15 to 5.52 in 2021-22

India is making progress as new leprosy cases are declining year after year, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in his video address at an event to observe the National Anti-Leprosy Day here on Monday.The theme of this year was 'Let ...

Though it's been around for nearly 3,500 years, scientists are still missing many basic facts about the disease.

A Tuberculosis expert in Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Bolatito Aiyenigba has expressed worry over the position of Nigeria as the sixth and first in rank among