April 2009, Global Program Managers Meeting, New Delhi28.04.10 - 10:44
     

Inviting experts worldwide to give input to the global initiative

Originally it had been the idea to use the opportunity of the presence of so many international experts at the WHO Meeting for having an informal half-day meeting to discuss the first results of the GoI pilot study. Unfortunately it turned out that particularly because of the national elections the start of the pilot study had to be delayed to mid May. It therefore was suggested by Dr. Joshi to plan the meeting with international experts for after the summer holiday period, probably in late September.

However, the WHO meeting offered a valuable platform to invite officers and experts from all over the world to come forward with suggestions on studies which might help improve the quality and effectiveness of leprosy programs on the operational level. The more the “rough” part of the anti-leprosy challenge is already achieved, the more the collaboration between countries with similar challenges becomes more important. Linking up survey activities globally seems to be a good way to establish such collaborations.

See also the NFSD opening remarks, the discussed draft strategy and the WHO press release.

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This website is maintained by the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development. Inspired by debates at the 2008 Leprosy Congress a new theme was started: promote surveys which help improve the efficacy of hands-on leprosy control worldwide.

As there are trendier topics than a leprosy-free world it is crucial to link up existing or emerging efforts. The Foundation is prepared to play this facilitation role and will also be able to add some missing elements.

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First and foremost this is an open question which this website wants to help be discussed. However, in broad terms it seems to be clear that creating new insights and empirical knowledge is a success if it leads to an earlier detection (and treatment) of leprosy cases. Studies merely with a medical / epidemiological focus might be blind to opportunities of influencing health system or patient related parameters, being revealed by approaches which are based on social sciences, too.

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