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National Leprosy Effacing Programme (NLEP)
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National Leprosy Elimination Programme (NLEP)
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National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP)
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National Leprosy Extermination Programme (NLEP)
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Detailed explanation-1: -The National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) is a Centrally Sponsored Health Scheme and it has been implemented with the major objective of reducing the disease burden, prevention of disability and to improve awareness among the mass about Leprosy and its curability.
Detailed explanation-2: -Culion Leprosy Colony (Philippines)
Detailed explanation-3: -The search for more effective anti-leprosy drugs led to the use of clofazimine and rifampicin in the 1960s and 1970s. Later, Indian scientist Shantaram Yawalkar and his colleagues formulated a combined therapy using rifampicin and dapsone, intended to mitigate bacterial resistance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hansen’s disease is treated with a combination of antibiotics. Typically, 2 or 3 antibiotics are used at the same time. These are dapsone with rifampicin, and clofazimine is added for some types of the disease. This is called multidrug therapy.