Fw: Ref.: (LML) Leprosy elimination policy (1990 -2005)

 
Leprosy Mailing List – August 17,  2021

 

Ref.:  (LML) Leprosy elimination policy (1990 -2005)

 

From:  Salvatore Noto, Bergamo, Italy

 

 

Dear Pieter,

Thank you very much to Doctors Sunil Deepak, Jaison Barreto, Wim Theuvenet and M.S. Raju for their messages (LML, August 8, 9 and 10, 2021)  Please note that I have changed the title of the subject to "Leprosy elimination policy (1990-2005)".   

The WHO leprosy staff in the past decades imposed the inappropriate anti-leprosy strategy we are talking about.  There was no real debate; the WHO leprosy staff powerfully acted, paying  no attention to all criticism coming from so many colleagues.  A group of WHO indoctrinated staff acted directly onto national Ministry of Health personnel and imposed the, then, new anti-leprosy policy.

The list of colleagues disappointed by the imposed WHO anti-leprosy policy was very long.  Leprosy doctors from all five continents expressed their disappointment.   The use of the wrong indicator (prevalence) and the risk of losing leprosy knowledge were among the important topics mentioned but, all comments were dismissed.  The colleagues in the field, in all leprosy fields (not only the clinicians) were powerless.

 

Yours sincerely,

S. Noto

LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder

LML blog link: http://leprosymailinglist.blogspot.it/

Contact: Dr Pieter Schreuder << editorlml@gmail.com

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