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WHO wants leprosy campaign to continue
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there is no room for complacency despite progress in the fight against leprosy over the past two decades
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he World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there is no room for complacency despite progress in the fight against leprosy over the past two decades.
'Complacency may now be threatening the last push toward a world free of this debilitating disease,' said the WHO in its opening statement at the International Leprosy Summit made available to The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
The development of a multi-drug leprosy therapy in the 1980s effectively cured 16 million people in the past 20 years.
However, the rates of new case detection have showed either stagnancy or increases in many countries where the disease is endemic.
The WHO has recorded that globally, a new case of leprosy is detected every two minutes and seven out of every 10 cases affect children.
