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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]