Leprosy Mailing List – November 29, 2021
Ref.: (LML) WHO Goodwill Ambassador's Leprosy Bulletin NO. 106, November 2021
From: Takahiro Nanri, Tokyo, Japan
Dear Dr. Schreuder and Friends,
Warm greetings from Sasakawa Health Foundation/Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Initiative in Tokyo. We have issued WHO Goodwill Ambassador's Leprosy Bulletin NO. 106 November 2021 "Building back better to realize a leprosy-free world" today. In this issue, we feature:
MESSAGE FROM THE AMBASSADOR
According to the World Health Organization's annual global leprosy update, there were 127,396 new cases detected in 2020, a 37.1% decrease in comparison to the previous year. In my view, this is not good news. Read More
VIEWPOINT - Dr. Roch Christian Johnson, President, International Leprosy Association
Essential elements of post-pandemic leprosy services
From the latest Weekly epidemiological record on leprosy (Hansen's disease) published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fight against leprosy has been clearly highlighted. Read more
DATA BOX
WHO's global leprosy update (2020 data)
Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) receives official data on leprosy from national programs in member states worldwide. For the calendar year 2020, WHO received data from 127 countries, including all 23 global priority countries. WHO released a report on this data in September 2021. Read more
VIEWPOINT - Dr. Claudio Guedes Salgado, President, Brazil Hansen's Disease Society (SBH)
Viewing disruption as an opportunity to rebuild
Between 1989 and 1998, the number of new cases per year of Hansen's disease (HD) in the world increased from 576,361 to 805,000. This increase occurred in the context of the World Health Assembly's 1991 resolution to "eliminate leprosy as a public health problem" by the year 2000... Read more
LETTER- Yohanna Abdou, Representative, IDEA Niger
Progress in Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger
Niger is a West African country with a population of approximately 22 million people located in a semi-arid region known as the Sahel. We must deal with a fragile context that includes water-related challenges such as cyclic flood, drought, and insufficient rainfall along with epidemics of diseases such as malaria, meningitis, and, recently, COVID-19. Read more
VIEWPOINT- Bill Simmons, Chair, Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy
GPZL paves a new path towards zero leprosy
June 15, 2012, was the day I first met Yohei Sasakawa. We met in his offices in Tokyo where we shared our dream of accomplishing the goal of freeing the world from the infection and stigma of leprosy. Read more
REPORT - Erei Bonebati Rimon, National Leprosy Elimination Program Manager, Republic of Kiribati
Leprosy in Kiribati
Kiribati is among the three remaining countries in the Pacific region yet to achieve the World Health Organization (WHO) target of reducing the prevalence of leprosy cases to less than 1 per 10,000 population at the national level. Read more
SPOTLIGHT- Contributed by World Health Organization (WHO) India
Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), a driving force behind India's public health system
Under India's National Health Mission, every village in the country has a trained female community health worker who is both selected from the village and accountable to it. Read more
We hope that you would enjoy reading the latest Leprosy Bulletin.
Takahiro NANRI, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Sasakawa Health Foundation
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