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【Yohei Sasakawa Around the World】 (2) Visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 [2020/09/24]

I would like to share with you a video taken during my visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2008 as chairman of The Nippon Foundation and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination.

This visit followed the announcement in 2007 that the central African country had achieved the goal of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem, defined by WHO as a reduction in the prevalence rate to below one case per 10,000 population. However, as with other countries that attained the goal at the national level, DR Congo still had pockets of high endemicity, making it essential that there was no slackening of effort to control the disease. So, the purpose of my visit was to mark the achievement of the milestone of elimination as a public health problem with those responsible and see for myself an area where the prevalence rate remained troublingly high.

Today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains one of the WHO’s 23 global priority countries for leprosy, reporting over 3,000 new cases in 2019. 
Posted by Y.Sasakawa at 16:08 | AROUND THE WORLD | URL | comment(0)
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