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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.

A first step in the programme of the Burmese anti-leprosy campaign was the training of some thirty "leprosy inspectors", competent to organize treatment centres throughout the country and to carry out a programme of mass education of the villagers. Here, future leprosy inspectors are shown the "slit and scrape" technique. Leprosy infiltration often begins in the ear lobe. The lobe is slit and squeezed for a bacteriological examination.

Asset date 01/01/1953

Country, area, WHO office Myanmar

WHO Region SEARO

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