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WHO-SEARO Leprosy elimination Programme
 Programme updates and country situation
 The
South-East Asia Region achieved the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public
health problem at the end of December 2005 with the regional prevalence
rate of 0.87 per 10,000 population.
All
11 Member States of the South-East Asia Region achieved the goal of
elimination of leprosy as a public health problem at the national level by
the end of December 2010;
In the beginning of 2011, the regional
prevalence rate was 0.63 per 10,000 population with a total of 113 750
cases on treatment, in the Region;
Trends
of new leprosy case detection, globally, in SEA Region and in India
from 2001 to 2010 are shown in the below Fig. 1;
59%
of global total registered prevalent cases were in SEA Region at the end of
2010, as shown in Fig. 2;
68%
of the global total new cases were detected in SEA Region during the year
2010 (from January to December), as shown in Fig. 3;
Trend
of Disability Grade 2 among new leprosy cases detected in SEA Region from
2001 to 2010 is shown in the below Fig. 4;
Globally,
there are 17 countries that reported 1 000 and more new cases at the end of
2010;
6
of these 17 countries are in this Region (Bangladesh:
3 848, India: 126 800, Indonesia: 17 012, Myanmar 2 936, Nepal:
3 118 and in Sri Lanka:
2 027 cases); More Info…
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Mr. 
Leprosy
has been declared eliminated as a public health problem in
Timor-Leste. With this declaration