Guangdong promulgates leprosy prevention plan

On the 25th, it was learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Health that the “Leprosy Prevention Plan of Guangdong Province (2011-2020)” was promulgated recently. The goal is to reduce the number of leprosy patients in the province by 20% compared with 2010 by 2015. The province is counties ( The prevalence of leprosy in each city is controlled at 1/100,000 or less; by 2020, the number of leprosy patients in the province is 50% lower than in 2010, and the prevalence of 100% of counties (districts) in the province is controlled. Within 1/10 million.

Leprosy was a chronic infectious disease that seriously endangered the health of Cantonese. After active prevention and control in more than 60 years, the province will achieve the goal of basically eliminating leprosy in 2011. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, the overall epidemic of leprosy in the province has slowed down. In some areas, the epidemic has fluctuated and even showed an upward trend.

According to experts, as of 2010, there were 2 counties (cities) in the province with a prevalence of more than 1 in 100,000 (1.64 per 100 thousand in Xuwen County and 1.76 per 100,000 in Yangjiang City). In the past five years, there were 130 new cases of leprosy patients in the province, and 379 cases of current cases in 2010. Reports of refractory and suspected drug-resistant cases and recurrence cases have increased; epidemics have been repeated in some areas; Increase.

At present, there are still 67 villages in the village of Lefeng in Guangdong, 2364 people have been cured, about 85.5% of ex-recovery patients have grade II disability, and there are a considerable number of out-of-hospital cured persons with grade II disability. Leprosy discrimination and prejudice still exist, which is not conducive to the early detection and prevention of patients.

Based on this, 11 departments such as the Guangdong Provincial Department of Health jointly formulated the "Leprosy Prevention Plan of Guangdong Province (2011-2020)". Based on the prevalence rate, the average discovery rate in the past five years, and the number of new cases, the plan divides all counties (districts) in the province into three types of areas and sets out stage prevention and control targets.

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