Editorial & Opinion
United for dignity: four strategic shifts to get to zero leprosy by 2030.
| العنوان: | United for dignity: four strategic shifts to get to zero leprosy by 2030. |
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| المؤلفون: | Warusavithana S; Regional Adviser, Neglected Tropical Disease Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt., Osman M; Technical Officer, Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt., Atta H; Coordinator, TB, Malaria and Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt., Hutin YJ; Director, Division of Communicable Disease Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. |
| المصدر: | Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit [East Mediterr Health J] 2022 Feb 27; Vol. 28 (2), pp. 93-94. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Feb 27. |
| نوع المنشور: | Editorial |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization Country of Publication: Egypt NLM ID: 9608387 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1687-1634 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10203397 NLM ISO Abbreviation: East Mediterr Health J Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: <2000->: Cairo : Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization Original Publication: Alexandria, Arab Republic of Egypt : Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization, c1995- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Leprosy*/drug therapy , Leprosy*/epidemiology , Leprosy*/prevention & control , Respect*, Drug Therapy, Combination ; Humans ; Leprostatic Agents/therapeutic use ; Mycobacterium leprae |
| مستخلص: | Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is a curable infectious disease caused by the bacillus M. leprae. In 1991, the World Health Assembly WHA44.9 set the goal for "elimination of leprosy as a public health problem" as less than one case on treatment per 10 000 population by 2000. Since then, global leprosy strategies have focused on reducing the prevalence of the disease at country level and reducing transmission. Early detection and prompt treatment with multidrug therapy, the keystone for leprosy control, led to the achievement of this goal at global level by 2000, and in almost all countries, at least at the national level, by 2015. (Copyright © World Health Organization (WHO) 2022. Open Access. Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo).) |
| معلومات مُعتمدة: | 001 International WHO_ World Health Organization |
| المشرفين على المادة: | 0 (Leprostatic Agents) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20220319 Date Completed: 20220322 Latest Revision: 20220413 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20231215 |
| DOI: | 10.26719/2022.28.2.93 |
| PMID: | 35304905 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1687-1634 |
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| DOI: | 10.26719/2022.28.2.93 |