Leprosy Mailing List – December 7th, 2006
Ref.: Reuters
article about leprosy in India
From: Warren G., Sydney,
Australia
Dear Salvatore,
Thank you
for the article about leprosy in India (Douglas Soutar, LML
Dec 1st, 2006). Is there any way that we can
get this sort of information out across the world!
As a worker with Leprosy Mission I have got
extremely tired with people saying: - You do not need money for
leprosy, WHO says it is eliminated.
They do not realize the subtlety of the new WHO definition!
As far as I am concerned the “Elimination”
statement has done more to set back to control and management of
leprosy that anything else that I know.
We are certainly not going to really eliminate leprosy in this
century. Even after Small
pox effective vaccine was discovered it was hundreds of years before
we could say it was eliminated. We
have no vaccine for leprosy the only control is find it and treat it. WHO is now telling people to
not even Go and look to find it.
Fascinated in the statements as to how common it
is in India! I know of
lots of relapses but because they do not strictly fit into WHO
classification they are not reported.
WHO is making us all live under a delusion. How can we break these
misconceptions!
Grace Warren
Worker in leprosy since 1959! And the work
is not getting less!
