Kasus Penyakit Kusta di Tanah Bumbu Kalsel Menurun

Screen Shot 2020 01 21 at 2.11.02 AMREPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANJARMASIN — Kasus penyakit kusta yang ditangani Rumah Sakit Umum Derah dr Andi Abdurrahman Noor Kabupaten Tanah Bumbu, Kalimantan Selatan turun hingga 75 persen selama 2018-2019. Penurunan itu antara lain karena penyuluhan kepada masyarakat dan penanganan intensif

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Profile: A nurse’s battle for leprosy patients

Screen Shot 2020 01 17 at 1.42.42 PMHANGZHOU, March 7 (Xinhua) — When Pan Mei’er first arrived in a hospital in Shangbai, a place known as the “leprosy village” due to the big number of leprosy patients, she was shocked and disturbed.

“They were cheering because someone finally came to their help,” Pan says. “I smelled a strong choking smell,

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Leprosy Overview

Screen Shot 2020 01 16 at 11.57.29 AMLeprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms, legs, and skin areas around the body. The disease has been around since ancient times, often surrounded by terrifying, negative stigmas and tales of leprosy patients being shunned as outcasts. Outbreaks of leprosy have affected, and panicked, people on every continent. The oldest civilizations of China,

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Building a Leprosy Free Bangladesh

Screen Shot 2020 01 14 at 11.29.08 AMDHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 9 2019 (IPS) – Despite having remarkable success in leprosy control in the last decades, the Bangladesh government is now moving forward with a vision to build a leprosy- free country.

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Health chief eyes zero leprosy cases by 2020

Screen Shot 2020 01 06 at 3.58.54 PM‘A world without leprosy.”

This was declared by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III during the opening ceremonies of the recent 20th International Leprosy Congress.

Duque said that the health sector’s dream of a world without leprosy is making headway as the target year 2020 draws near.

The International Leprosy Congress (ILC) has been conducted every three to five years

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