Tag: Leprosy

Brazil Plans to Lower Rate of Leprosy to Less than 1 in 10,000, But Not Before 2010

By 2010 the Ministry of Health hopes to attain an index of less than ...

With 38,000 New Cases of Leprosy a Year, Brazil Appeals to UN

A letter signed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week will ...

With 50,000 New Cases a Year, Brazil Has Long Way to Eradicate Leprosy

The II South-Southeast Macroregional Encounter to Evaluate the Elimination of Hansen’s disease  is being ...