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Leprosy in India
Leprosy currently affects approximately a quarter of a million people throughout the world, with majority of these cases being reported from India.
India is a signatory of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). India is currently running one of the largest leprosy eradication program in the world, the National Leprosy Eradication Program (NLEP). Still, 1.2 to 1.3 hundred thousand new cases of leprosy reported every year, 58% of the total amount of new cases reported every year. Since children are most susceptible to leprosy, they face worse discrimination and ostracisation from childhood, including the denial of basic rights and medical care.
==Transmission, treatment and disability==
Leprosy is one of the least infectious diseases as nearly everyone has some measure of natural resistance against it.〔World Health Organization (2009): Leprosy. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs101/en/index.html〕 Nevertheless, stigma against the disease due to its disfigurement causes its victims to be isolated and shunned. Leprosy is also the leading cause of permanent disability in the world and is primarily a disease of the poor.
The disease is now readily treatable with multi-drug therapy, which combines three drugs to kill the pathogen and cure the victim.〔World Health Organization (2009): Leprosy. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs101/en/index.html〕 Disability and disfigurement can be avoided if the disease is treated early. Unfortunately, individuals with leprosy are still shunned, isolated, and stigmatised, leading to the fear of leprosy being worse than the disease itself.〔Bhattacharya, S. and Virendra N. Sehgal (1999): Leprosy in India. Clinics in Dermatology 17: 159–170〕
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