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10,000 volunteers across France collect for World Leprosy Day
Ordre de Malte France runs nationwide campaign annually
Paris, 26 January 2014
Volunteers on a Paris street collect for World Leprosy Day
World Leprosy Day: Ordre de Malte France has a special focus in treating and assisting victims of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). They inspired 10,000 volunteers across France to collect funds all weekend, aiming to match last year’s sum of 740,000 Euro.
The World Health Organization (WHO) data for 2012 reports almost 233,000 new cases in some hundred countries. Ten percent were children. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment in a specialised centre are still the keys to tackling the disease. Polichemotherapy – chemotherapy involving simultaneous administration of several agents – can guarantee total recovery.
Ordre de Malte France centres in Africa
Ordre de Malte France works in 17 countries through 20 specialised facilities. One of these is the Order of Malta’s Hospital Centre in Dakar (CHOM), the only unit treating leprosy patients in Senegal and West Africa. Ordre de Malte France also trains medical and health-care personnel and some 500 African, French, Vietnamese and Cambodian doctors have been trained in the Dakar centre.
In 2006 Ordre de Malte France set up a scientific research programme (MALTALEP) to examine the genetic causes of the disease.
World Leprosy Day: Ordre de Malte France has a special focus in treating and assisting victims of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). They inspired 10,000 volunteers across France to collect funds all weekend, aiming to match last year’s sum of 740,000 Euro.
The World Health Organization (WHO) data for 2012 reports almost 233,000 new cases in some hundred countries. Ten percent were children. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment in a specialised centre are still the keys to tackling the disease. Polichemotherapy – chemotherapy involving simultaneous administration of several agents – can guarantee total recovery.
Ordre de Malte France centres in Africa
Ordre de Malte France works in 17 countries through 20 specialised facilities. One of these is the Order of Malta’s Hospital Centre in Dakar (CHOM), the only unit treating leprosy patients in Senegal and West Africa. Ordre de Malte France also trains medical and health-care personnel and some 500 African, French, Vietnamese and Cambodian doctors have been trained in the Dakar centre.
In 2006 Ordre de Malte France set up a scientific research programme (MALTALEP) to examine the genetic causes of the disease.
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