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Aiming for zero leprosy ​ 0 Views Aiming for zero leprosy. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, May 24 : Thirty years ago this month, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a resolution to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem. Today, as the 74th WHA gets under way, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination Yohei Sasakawa is urging countries not to overlook leprosy amid the global coronavirus pandemic and aim for zero leprosy. The resolution adopted at the 44th World Health Assembly in 1991 called for the elimination of leprosy as a public health problem at the global level by t...

Novartis renews partnership with WHO to eradicate leprosy Novartis renews partnership with WHO to eradicate leprosy 01 February 2021 | News The five-year extension of the partnership will see Novartis continue to donate multi-drug therapy (MDT) medicines to treat leprosy up to the end of 2025 Source credit: Shutterstock A renewed partnership agreement signed by Novartis and the World Health Organization (WHO) will drive the global push towards making leprosy history. The five-year extension of the partnership – which was first signed in 2000 – will see Novartis continue to donate...

Visit Novartis Global Health on Twitter and Linkedin. Friday, January 29, 2021 - 1:15am CONTENT: Press Release BASEL, SWITZERLAND,  January 29, 2021 /3BL Media/ — A renewed partnership agreement signed by Novartis and the World Health Organization (WHO) will drive the global push towards making leprosy history. The five-year extension of the partnership – which was first signed in 2000 – will see Novartis continue to donate multidrug therapy (MDT) medicines to treat leprosy up to the end of 2025. Widespread use of MDT has led to a 95% reduction in leprosy prevalence world-wide sin...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the challenges the leprosy-affected community face: deep and widespread stigma, discrimination, misinformation, unfounded fear, besides living with the disease itself. IPS senior correspondent STELLA PAUL looks at the challenges they face ahead of World Leprosy Day on Jan. 31 Participants from organisations focused on assisting Hansen’s disease-affected people from Asia, Latin America and Africa with World Health Organisation (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Yohei Sasakawa (centre pink shirt) pictured in 2019. Participants were attendi...

/PRNewswire/ -- With the approach of World Leprosy Day on January 31, 2021, Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Initiative has created a number of...