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A promising vaccine against leprosy – Govt of India plans large-scale field – Testing

On August 20, Mr Jagat Prakash Nadda, Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, announced at a function in Chennai that the government has decided to launch Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), an exclusive vaccine for leprosy, developed in India, on a pilot basis in five districts of Bihar and Gujarat within a few weeks. Dr Soumya Swaminathan, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, said MIP has the potential to bring down new cases of leprosy by 60% in three years.

I will make tasty Samosas with my own hands and feed you

I reached my desk after the morning devotion at the hospital chapel on that sunny June morning. I felt energised. As a patient counsellor at TLM

Hospital, Barabanki, I expected a lot of patients that day. Suddenly, eighteen-year-old Sarvesh appeared in front of me.

It feels nice having my own rickshaw

Dipnarayan has achieved financial security withTLMTI’s Community Based Rehabilitation Project. Working as a labourer for the Food Corporation of India in Assam, Dipnarayan had started to notice the tell-tale signs of Leprosy on his foot. He became weak, lost sensation in his foot and began dragging it along the ground.

Once a wasteland, today a land where dreams bloom!

In the large compound of TLM Chandkhuri Hospital, in Chhattisgarh, 2.5 acres of land lied waste and vacant for 12 years before Dr Manotosh Elkana, hospital medical superintendent and his team decided to put it to good use.

A landmark initiative for human dignity and equality for people affected by leprosy

‘The Rights of Persons Affected by Leprosy and Members of Their Family (Protection Against Discrimination and Guarantee of Social Welfare) Bill, 2017’, aiming to address the consequences of the deep-rooted stigma associated with leprosy and providing for welfare measures for holistic development of people affected by the disease, introduced in Parliament by Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer, KTS Tulsi, on December 29, 2017, is a landmark initiative and will bring human dignity and equality in the lives of people affected by leprosy.