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Wellesley Bailey Award: Meet the overcomers who are the recipients of the award this year

At the Wellesley Bailey Award Gala Night, held in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, on Friday, September 21, 2018, two remarkable persons affected by leprosy – Kofi Nyarko, from Ghana and Birke Nigatu Teka, from Ethiopia – were presented with the ninth Wellesley Bailey Award.

The World Health Organization’s 2017 leprosy statistics are out

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of leprosy (full text). The Guidelines provide state-of-the-art knowledge and evidence on leprosy diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

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