Fw: Ref.: (LML) AI in Leprosy - a view from the Philippines

 

Leprosy Mailing List –  September 22,  2026

 

Ref.:  (LML) AI in Leprosy - a view from the Philippines

From: Francesca Cajete, Manilla, the Philippines

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Dear Henk, Pieter, and colleagues,

 

Thank you, Henk, for this very timely and balanced warning — and thank you to Pieter for sharing the Hinton excerpt and the INFOLEP collection.

 

As we in the Philippines finalize our NLCP Manual of Procedures,the Philippine Leprosy Corpus,  — with WHO WR, DOH NLCP,Philippine Dermatological Society and The Culion Foundation Inc.— we find AI helpful for organizing literature and drafting, but we fully agree with the cautions raised.

 

From field experience in Culion,Palawan and other regions in the country the risk of false negatives and of AI-generated images that reinforce stigma is real. Our community health workers remain irreplaceable for early detection and for trust.

 

We are therefore adopting the practice now recommended by The Leprosy Review: use AI as assistant only, with all clinical and historical interpretation verified by human experts.

 

Thank you for continuing to mentor us in thinking critically, even after retirement. You shaped many of us in this field.

 

Warm regards from the Philippines,

 

Dr Francesca Cando Gajete,MHA,FPLS

Former National Leprosy Control 

     Program Manager

Member, International Leprosy 

           Association (ILA)

Former Vice President,ILA 

Trustee, Culion Foundation Inc 

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

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

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

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