Cases of the disfiguring disease in Achham are declining, but many may still go unreported out of fear of social exclusion, ...

Leprosy has caused one death in Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan as of February 2025. Leprosy is not highly contagious and requires prolonged, close contact with an infected person to spread.

Leprosy is reported in all the six WHO regions ... Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Sri Lanka and the United Republic of Tanzania) each reported 1000-10,000 ...

My academic background has centred around leprosy research; periods spent in low income, leprosy endemic countries (Tanzania, Bangladesh and Nepal) showed me the reality of disease control at the ...