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Access delayed, rights denied

 1 Dec 2025

This year’s report to the UN General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur for leprosy, Beatriz Miranda Galarza, focuses on bottlenecks in the leprosy drug supply chain and their impact on affected persons. The Special Rapporteur’s starting point is that […]

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Global leprosy (‎Hansen disease)‎ update 2024: Beyond zero cases – what elimination of leprosy really means

 31 Oct 2025

ILEP Technical Commission commentary The Global Leprosy Update for 2024 has been published by the WHO Global Leprosy Programme in the Weekly Epidemiological Review (WER) and updated in the Global Health Observatory. This much-awaited report has a mix of encouraging […]

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Roundtable on mental health, wellbeing and person-centred approaches

 4 Feb 2025

This Roundtable, hosted by Africa CDC in partnership with Anesvad Foundation, CBM Global and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, was held on 24 January in Kigali, Rwanda directly after the International Conference on NTD Research. Thank you to Maneesh Philip […]

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International Conference on NTD Research

 4 Feb 2025

This month, COR-NTD and the African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ARNTD) hosted the second International Conference on NTD Research (InCORNTD) in Kigali, Rwanda in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Over 500 researchers, academics, and policymakers met during […]

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NNN Conference 2024

 6 Oct 2024

The annual conference of the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) has just finished in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Once again, there was strong representation from the leprosy world including from ILEP members, seven of which contributed to sponsorship of the […]

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