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Description Inspired by the concept that leprosy was "no longer a disease apart", Burma, with an estimated 200'000 leprosy sufferers (over ten cases per thousand population - a prevalence rate twice that of India or Thailand and the highest in South-East Asia) launched in 1952 a nationwide anti-leprosy campaign, with the help of the World Health Organization.

This is what little Ma Boke Sone looked like when she arrived at the Kenmendine Mission near Rangoon in 1950. She was 8 years old - and already an advanced, seemingly hopeless case of leprosy. She made a remarkable recovery - thanks to the treatment with sulfone drugs - and by 1955, she was entirely free of symptoms and without deformity, a pretty young girl of thirteen.

Asset date 01/01/1950

Country, area, WHO office Myanmar

WHO Region SEARO

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