The
National Leprosy Eradication Programme under the Health Ministry and the Lam
Dong provincial People’s Committee on September 25 organised a conference
aiming to accelerate efforts to eradicate leprosy.
According to the programme’s management board,
in 2000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised Vietnam’s success in
eliminating leprosy, bringing the incidence of the disease to under 1 per
10,000 on the national scale.
Since 2002, Vietnam has launched campaigns to
erase the disease in accordance with the country’s standards. As a result, in
2010, 42 cities and provinces nationwide fulfilled the targets of bringing the
prevalence rate of leprosy to under 0.2% per 10,000 people, the annual
detection rate of new cases at under 1 per 100,000 for three consecutive years,
the rate of disability among newly-discovered patients at under 15%, and having
100% of randomly-surveyed medical workers and local officials understand the
basics of leprosy.
However, 21 remaining cities and provinces,
mostly in central, Central Highlands and southern regions, are struggling with
leprosy with over 1,000 cases discovered each year.
Delegates at the event proposed a wide range
of solutions to eliminate the disease by 2015, focusing on epidemiological
monitoring, information work to raise people’s awareness of the epidemic in
remote and far-lung areas, and the combination of treatment methods.
(VNA)
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