World Leprosy Day 2019: ‘Ending discrimination, stigma and prejudice’
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The ancient bacterial infection, Leprosy, while declared 'eliminated' as a public health problem at a global level in 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005, it is still not gone and around 220,000 new cases are reported globally each year. More the half the cases are reported in India, while other high-burden countries include Brazil and Indonesia. On ["]
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