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The Leprosy Mission Pioneering Sustainability in Healthcare

The Leprosy Mission Trust India’s Women As Change Agents (WACA) Project attached to TLM Kothara Hospital, Maharashtra, organised a one-day training for eight WACA champions on WACA and leprosy. These women champions are leprosy-cured and are working for their communities. The project identified their potential and encouraged them to be champions. The training focused on women affected by leprosy becoming change agents in active governance and leadership roles, along with a dignified living. The project also conducted a session on leprosy, its signs and symptoms and multi-drug therapy. This will help the women champions educate their community members on leprosy and help in early treatment.

Affordability Universal Design key to enhancing Assistive Technology ecosystem among G20 nations

The Leprosy Mission Trust India’s Women As Change Agents (WACA) Project attached to TLM Kothara Hospital, Maharashtra, organised a one-day training for eight WACA champions on WACA and leprosy. These women champions are leprosy-cured and are working for their communities. The project identified their potential and encouraged them to be champions. The training focused on women affected by leprosy becoming change agents in active governance and leadership roles, along with a dignified living. The project also conducted a session on leprosy, its signs and symptoms and multi-drug therapy. This will help the women champions educate their community members on leprosy and help in early treatment.

Saksham An Advanced Disability Rehabilitation Centre at TLM Miraj Maharashtra

The Leprosy Mission Trust India’s Women As Change Agents (WACA) Project attached to TLM Kothara Hospital, Maharashtra, organised a one-day training for eight WACA champions on WACA and leprosy. These women champions are leprosy-cured and are working for their communities. The project identified their potential and encouraged them to be champions. The training focused on women affected by leprosy becoming change agents in active governance and leadership roles, along with a dignified living. The project also conducted a session on leprosy, its signs and symptoms and multi-drug therapy. This will help the women champions educate their community members on leprosy and help in early treatment.

Marching towards zero leprosy in India

Marching towards zero leprosy in India Till date, we have been dealing with the target of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem. The target laid down there was to reduce prevalence rate to less than 1 per 10,000. A major paradigm shift that has been taken in our vision under the programme is to… Continue reading Marching towards zero leprosy in India

World Mental Health Day 2019

The World Mental Health Day is commemorated on 10th of October every year to emphasize the importance of mental health through raising awareness and to advocate against prevailing social stigma faced by persons affected by mental illness and their family members. With one suicide case being reported every 40 seconds across the globe, the theme for this year is aptly on ‘suicide prevention’. Mental health of persons affected by leprosy and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) is yet to become a priority for the national governments and other stakeholders of mental health programmes in NTD endemic countries.