Fw: Ref.: (LML) Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

 

 

Leprosy Mailing List – October 1,  2024

 

Ref.:  (LML) Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy': experts sceptical of India's target to eliminate the disease by 2027

From:  Pieter Schreuder, Maastricht, the Netherlands

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Dear colleagues,

 

Yesterday, the following article was published in The Guardian (www.theguardian.com/international): "Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy': experts sceptical of India's target to eliminate the disease by 2027".

There are more than 200,000 new leprosy cases reported each year, with 60% of them just in India. In January 2023, the Indian government launched the Leprosy Mukt Bharat campaign, promising to make the country free of leprosy by 2027 – three years earlier than the World Health Organization's target.

Charity leaders and medical workers, however, are sceptical that India will succeed in eliminating the disease, given limited training, a shelved vaccination rollout and the lack of any awareness campaign. After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world's cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resources.

You may read the whole article in The Guardian of September 30, 2024.

 

Best regards,

 

Pieter AM Schreuder

Editor LML

 

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

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