The Leprosy Mission 

An international Christian organisation leading the fight against leprosy.
 
There are over 200,000 new cases of leprosy worldwide each year. There are over 3 million sufferers that need support on a regular basis.  The World Health Organisation lists 23 countries that are designated as priority for leprosy. TLM supports 12 of these in which over 70% of new cases occur annually. It co-operates with the International Federation of Anti-leprosy Associations for work in the remainder.  TLM’s activities include healing and reconstructive surgery, outreach for early detection, residential care for long term sufferers, research including vaccination development, vocational training, mental health treatment for stigma and isolation effects, advocacy to governments to remove discriminatory laws, training for government medical staff to aid early detection and establishing self help groups.
Support for TLM, including that of BRBC, has contributed recently to a new trauma centre in Nepal, to a new state of the art Research Centre, to a new Out Patients Department in Bihar, India and to outreach teams in the tea gardens of N.E. Bangladesh which have a much greater incidence of leprosy than average.  
  
To visit the Leprosy Mission website click here.