World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; World Health Organization, Control of Tropical Diseases, Leprosy, No. 94.2: Global Strategy for the Elimination of Leprosy as a Public Health Problem

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; World Health Organization, Control of Tropical Diseases, Leprosy, No. 94.2: Global Strategy for the Elimination of Leprosy as a Public Health Problem
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Excerpt
INTRODUCTION 1.1 The elobal burden of lenrosy Leprosy has struck fear into human beings for thousands of years, and was well recognized in the oldest civilizations of China, Egypt and India. A cumulative total for the number of human beings who, over the millennia, have suffered its 20- or 30-year course of incurable disfigurement and physical disability can never be calculated, But for the estimated global total of 2.4 million sufferers living today, relief is in sight and 1.7 million of them ate registered for treatment, of whom half receive the highly successful multidrug therapy (MDT). The intense social stigma attached to leprosy sufferers and the social discrimination against them should logically begin to weaken as the cot;il elimination of the disease becomes ever more feasible. Nevertheless there is a long way to go. There are 79 countries in the world with significant numbers of cases and GOO 000 new ones are detected annually. Around 2400 million people live in countries where the prevalence of leprosy is more than one in 10 000. In addition, between two and three million people are visibly and irreversihly disabled; their probiems will persist long after the bacteria within their bodies have been killed.

Table of Contents
LIST OF CONTENTS . Executive summary 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The global burden of leprosy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 m Failureandsuccess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2. A unique opportunity in human history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . Progress towards elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 Progress with MDT coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Situation in 25 most endemic countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 3 . Strategy for global elimination and activities at country level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 m Prerequisites for achieving elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preparatory actlvtt~es 8 . . . r Core actlvltles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 . . . . Supportive act~vjt~e.s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . m Evaluating actlvlt~es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0 4 . Workplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 . Priorities in countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . Priorities for action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . Additional resources needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.7 r Essential indicators for monitoring progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 8 5. Improving management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . Traln~ng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 r Health systems research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.0