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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.
World Health Organization South-East Asia provides leadership on health matters, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support to countries and monitors health trends. World Health Organization South-East Asia is working with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.
The new partnership is looking to help people affected by leprosy and other vulnerable groups throughout the world including India.
Health Workers Lauded for Role in Leprosy Treatment During Pandemic
The human rights of people affected by leprosy are central to Yohei Sasakawa’s concept of a leprosy-free world.Sasakawa, the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Chairman of the