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The stated goal of Leprosy Mission Australia is a world free from leprosy and its associated social shame, sometimes described as zero transmission, zero disability, zero stigma. [3] This vision aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations which aim to end the neglect of neglected tropical diseases like leprosy, of which ...
Countries where the Leprosy Mission is active as of 2011. The Leprosy Mission is an international and inter-denominational Christian NGO, the largest and oldest organisation working in the fight against leprosy. Founded as the Mission to Lepers, [1] it has the goal of zero leprosy transmission by 2035.
Wellesley C. Bailey (1846-1937) was the founder of the international charity The Leprosy Mission. [1] In India, in the 1860s, he witnessed the severe consequences of the disease and vowed to make caring for those struggling with leprosy his life's work. [2]
Lepra is a member of the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP), [1] a federation of international non-governmental organisations committed to creating a world free of leprosy [2] and of The UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases, [3] a collaborative partnership between UK organisations actively engaged in the ...
John Hargrave was born in 1931 in Perth, Western Australia. [11] He had one sibling, Barbara Kathleen Hargrave, who was born in 1928 and died after 2017 in Tasmania. John's father, Norman Hargrave, was born in Yorkshire, England and died in Perth, Western Australia in 1938, at the age of 41.
An increase in leprosy cases in the 1950s led to overcrowding and the facility was closed in 1955. It was replaced by The East Arm Leprosarium on the mainland. [1] Patients were compulsorily isolated, were often treated poorly and were cut off from their families. [2] [3] The site was heritage listed in February 1997. [4]
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