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India is a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities . India is currently running one of the largest leprosy eradication program in the world, the National Leprosy Eradication Program (NLEP). Despite this, 120,000 to 130,000 new cases of leprosy are reported every year in India.
The Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists.
From 1983 until 2005 India organized successful programs to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem. [46] While these programs reduced the number of people in India with leprosy from 58 in 10,000 to 1 in 10,000, they did not eliminate leprosy entirely. [46] Completely eliminating the disease is possible in the near future. [47]
National Leprosy Eradication Program is a health scheme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to eradicate leprosy in India. [1] It was launched in 1983 as a continuation of the National Leprosy Control Program of 1955.
Srinivasan became editor of the Indian Journal of Leprosy in 1990 to 2001, and joined a panel for leprosy in the World Health Organization in 1985. He has published approximately 90 papers in medical journals, authored three books, and contributed chapters in ten textbooks on Leprosy, dermatology and surgery. [4]
Indira Nath (14 January 1938 – 24 October 2021) [1] was an Indian immunologist.Her major contribution in medical science deals with mechanisms underlying immune unresponsiveness in man, reactions and nerve damage in leprosy and a search for markers for viability of the Leprosy bacillus.
The Leprosy Mission were heartened to find that the separated children did not develop the disease. [55] In 1881, around 120,000 leprosy patients were documented in India. The central government passed the Lepers Act of 1898, which provided legal provision for forcible confinement of people with leprosy in India, but the Act was not enforced ...
Isaac Santra was an Indian physician, gandhian and social worker, [1] known for his contributions for the eradication of Leprosy from India. [2] [3] The Government of India honoured him in 1956, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation.