World Leprosy Day is seen on the last Sunday of January every year. Set up in 1954 it plans to bring issues to light about leprosy (presently called Hansen’s illness) and train individuals about this old sickness and that today is effectively reparable. While uncommon in the United States, numerous individuals around the planet keep on experiencing this treatable sickness because of absence of admittance to essential clinical consideration and proceeded with shame encompassing the ailment.
Leprosy was renamed Hansen’s infection after Norwegian researcher Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who in 1873 found the moderate developing bacterium currently referred to as Mycobacterium leprae as the reason for the ailment. It is hard to catch, and it can require numerous years to create indications of the sickness following a contamination. In any case, individuals who get the infection can be relieved with anti-microbials.
Together, we can end separation and shame against individuals with Hansen’s sickness. We can figure out how to perceive manifestations and realize when to see a doctor for finding. Instruct yourself and your local area and separate current realities from the legends about Hansen’s infection.
Key facts about Leprosy
- Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium leprae.
- M. leprae multiplies slowly and the incubation period of the disease, on average, is 5 years.
- Symptoms may occur within 1 year but can also take as long as 20 years or even more to occur.
- The disease mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract, and the eyes.
- Leprosy is curable with multidrug therapy (MDT).
- Leprosy is likely transmitted via droplets, from the nose and mouth, during close and frequent contact with untreated cases.
- Untreated, leprosy can cause progressive and permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs, and eyes.
- There were 208 619 new leprosy cases registered globally in 2018, according to official figures from 159 countries from the 6 WHO Regions.
- Based on 184 212 cases at the end of 2018, prevalence rate corresponds to 0.2/10 000.
Global Facts about Leprosy
- The number of new cases reported globally to WHO in 2016 was more than 200,000.
- Close to 19,000 children were diagnosed with Hansen’s disease in 2016, more than 50 a day.
- An estimated 2 to 3 million people are living with Hansen’s disease-related disabilities globally.
- In 2016, the countries with the highest number of new diagnoses were India, Brazil, and Indonesia, followed by some of the nations in Africa.
- Two-thirds of all new cases of Hansen’s disease are diagnosed in India, which remains home to a third of the world’s poor, a group disproportionately affected by the disease.
This year, we unite around one goal, which is to Beat Leprosy. This World Leprosy Day, we invite the international community to help spread the word that Leprosy Is Curable, join in the fight to End Stigma, and advocate for the Mental Wellbeing of persons who have experienced leprosy and other neglected tropical diseases.
The theme for World Leprosy day is Beat Leprosy, End Stigma and advocate for Mental Wellbeing
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