Leprosy
Mailing List, April 19, 2009
Ref.:
ILEP support to the Brazilian
leprosy programme
From:
Soutar
D., London, UK
Dear
Salvatore,
Following
the contentious news article posted by Dr Clovis Lombardi and the
responses from a number of readers I thought I should share with
readers an extract from a letter I recently sent to the Brazil
National Programme indicating ILEP’s continuing support for their
current policy and priorities with regard to leprosy control. It
was sent on 6th March and included the following:
“ILEP,
as you know, endorsed the WHO Global Strategy 2006-2010 with its focus
on sustainable leprosy control activities and considers that the
approach taken by the Brazilian PNCH is wholly in line with this
strategy. ILEP has therefore welcomed the Brazilian Programme’s
focus on indicators of new case detection, child cases and on the
particularities of the leprosy problem in
Brazil
.
For
ILEP, the achievement of a prevalence-based elimination target is no
longer the central focus. ILEP Members are supporting programmes where
the emphasis is on timely case detection and sustaining the quality of
leprosy control activities. We understand that each country has to
tailor its efforts in this work to reflect its own epidemiological
realities and we commend the Brazilian National Programme for its
position with regard to this fact.
Please
be assured of the continuing commitment of ILEP Members working in
Brazil
to the goal of achieving sustainable leprosy control.”
Best
regards,
Douglas
Soutar
Mr
Douglas Soutar
General Secretary
International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations
doug.soutar@ilep.org.uk
;
www.ilep.org.uk
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7602 6925
