Fw: Ref.: (LML) What determines a successful leprosy control program: preventing disability and relieving human suffering or Zero leprosy?

 

 

Leprosy Mailing List –  June 8,  2025

 

Ref.:  (LML) What determines a successful leprosy control program: preventing disability and relieving human suffering or Zero leprosy?

From: Kerstin Beise, Gowa, Indonesia

 

 

Dear Pieter,

May I send you a response from Al Kadri, Chairman of PerMaTa Indonesia, on the email by Linda Lehman and yourself ("What determines a successful leprosy control program: preventing disability and relieving human suffering or Zero leprosy?")

Thank you!

Regards

Kerstin Beise

 

From: Al Kadri, PerMaTa Indonesia

Dear All,

On behalf of people affected by leprosy around the world, I would like to strongly emphasize and agree with what Linda Lehman and Pieter Schreuders said in their message of 30 May 2025: 'What determines a successful leprosy control programme: the prevention of disability and the alleviation of human suffering or zero leprosy?'.

Indonesia is one of the many countries where POD and rehabilitation nowadays are almost non-existent. It is only thanks to unique efforts such as those of Dr Wim Theuvenet and Dr Ton Schreuders that a few people with leprosy-related disabilities have had access to surgery, while in many other cases it was too late. We sincerely hope that at the ILC in Bali the true situation of people affected by leprosy today will be discussed honestly.

Elimination is a noble goal, but the most important thing that we can achieve together, if we have the commitment, is zero disability and freedom from recurrent reactions.  

 

With best wishes

Al Kadri

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