Leprosy Mailing List – February 19, 2014
Ref.: (LML) Hazards of setting targets to eliminate disease: lessons from the leprosy elimination campaign
From: Diana Lockwood, LSHTM, London, UK
Dear Pieter,
“Elimination of a disease sounds attractive, but as the recent re-emergence of polio has shown, it is difficult to accomplish. As part of its roadmap for reducing the burden of neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization has identified five diseases for elimination by 2015 and a further eight by 2020. Although setting these ambitious targets has the potential to focus money and resources, unless the targets are realistic they can have unforeseen consequences. We use the experience of the 1991 campaign to eliminate leprosy to show how targets can end up causing harm to patients” (Lockwood DNJ, Shetty V, Penna GO. Hazards of setting targets to eliminate disease: lessons from the leprosy elimination campaign. BMJ 2014;348: g1136 doi: 10.1136/bmj.g1136).
This paper was published in the BMJ on Feb 15th (see attached file). I hope that it will help leprosy work in India and Brazil.
Best wishes,
Diana Lockwood
Professor of Tropical Medicine
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel St
London WC1E 7HT
diana.lockwood@lshtm.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7927 2457
Fax: 020 7637 4314
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