Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a priority for surveillance in bacterial infections. For leprosy, AMR has not been assessed because Mycobacterium leprae does not grow in vitro. We aim to obtain AMR data using molecular detection of resistance genes and to conduct a prospective open survey of resistance to antileprosy drugs …
Bhadrapur, Jan. 27: Two in every ten thousand population in Jhapa district have been found carrying the leprosy disease. Accordingly, based on the data of the first four months of the current fiscal year, Jhapa is home to 172 leprosy patients. Of them, seven include children and 32 women, according …
KARACHI, Jan 26: Health experts have said that 80 per cent of all fresh leprosy cases in the country are reported from Sindh, including 30-40 per cent from Karachi, and blamed mobility of population for the cases, which is restricting their proper monitoring and follow-up treatment. Speaking at a press …
WHO panel proposed treaty requires all governments to share cost India supports a proposed legally binding global instrument that requires all governments to share the cost of research and development (R&D;). The treaty, recommended by a World Health Organisation panel, will boost access to countries least able to pay for …
Thirteen drug companies, the governments of the United States, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lions Club and other smaller charitable organizations on Monday announced a joint effort to tackle 10 neglected tropical diseases in a coordinated fashion. The diseases, …
Western Province records the highest number (42 percent) of leprosy patients in the country. The second highest number of leprosy patients (13 percent) is recorded from the Eastern Province. North Western Province records the third highest number (11 percent) of leprosy patients, Health Ministry additional secretary Dr Palitha Mahipala said. …
Over several centuries, leprosy had remained a dreaded, incurable disease. Patients were viewed with abhorrence, ostracized and subjected to inhuman treatment. Today, the stigma and prejudice against leprosy have reduced considerably, and the ravages of the disease are rarely seen in the community. This has been possible due the availability …
THE World Health Organization has raised alarm over leprosy spreading across India. With the disease infecting about 120,000 people every year, the country is now the biggest contributor to the global leprosy burden, the UN body said in a press release. The Union health ministry had declared the disease, which …
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular
AIZAWL, Feb 1: The State Health Department in a statement issued on the Anti-Leprosy Day today said Mizoram is marching ahead towards total eradication of leprosy. Mizoram on Saturday observed the 62nd Anti-Leprosy Day along with the rest of the country to mark the death anniversary of Father of the …
The government, finally on Tuesday officially declared the elimination of leprosy, once a major public health problem in the country. With this declaration, Nepal has become one of the countries to achieve this universal goal. In 1999, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eliminate leprosy by the year …
RASHME SEHGAL The department of biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace to develop new vaccines to combat tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, rabies, leprosy, HIV AIDS and cancer. Dr M.K. Bhan, secretary, department of biotechnology, admitted that five vaccines, including those for cholera and malaria are in the advanced trial stage. …
It provides the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy a museum in Pune has a collection of thousands of bones and skeletons excavated in India. Among them is a 4,000 year old skeleton of a man believed to be 37 years when he died. This skeleton was found buried at Balathal, …
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped …
The experience gained by the integration of the leprosy eradication programme with the general health services has many lessons to offer in the context of the National Rural Health Mission
Discriminatory disease: A leprosy patient cannot contest a civic poll or hold the post of a councillor or chairperson of a municipality, the Supreme Court ruled on September 19. This comes in the wake of patient Dhirendra Pandua challenging his disqualification from the post of councillor and chairperson in Balasore …
At the end of 2000, WHO declared that leprosy had been eliminated as a global public-health problem. Elimination is defi ned as a prevalence, per 10 000 population, of less than one patient diagnosed with leprosy and registered for treatment. The global prevalence fell from 5
Roshan Lal (name changed), a resident of Noida, Uttar Pradesh (up), finds it strange that the Indian government could be contemplating eradicating leprosy by 2005 end. At The Leprosy Mission Hospital, Nand Nagari, Delhi, Lal is undergoing reconstructive surgery on his deformed hands and says he sees enough new patients …
india might have the maximum number of leprosy-affected people in the world but a new study rejects the prevalent theory that the disease originated in India and spread to Europe through Alexander's troops. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France theorise that East Africa is the more likely place of …
