Global leprosy update, 2017: reducing the disease burden due to leprosy

6 September, 2018 | World Health Organization

The modus operandi for leprosy control in all the WHO global strategies over the past 3 decades has been detection of all cases and prompt treatment with multi­drug therapy (MDT). As the global target has been reached in all but a few coun­tries, the most recent strategy indicates a shift from “elimination of leprosy as a public health problem” to reduction of the disease burden, measured as a reduc­tion in grade-2 disabilities (G2D) among new cases and new cases in children.

Read more and see the latest 2017 data in No. 35, Vol. 93 of the Weekly Epidemiological Record.