Guyana Leprosy Control Programme

07/02/2025

27/01/2025

Today is World Leprosy Day!
This year's theme is UNITE. ACT. ELIMINATE.
Hansen’s disease/Leprosy is a CURABLE disease.
It is NOT a curse!
It is NOT highly contagious!
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of the disease EARLY, and completing treatment helps to prevent the disfiguring and disabling forms of Hansen’s disease.
Let's UNITE, ACT and ELIMINATE Leprosy!

25/01/2025

Awareness booth with support from loyal partners from day 1!

25/01/2025

World Leprosy Day 2025!

28/01/2024

Doctors and nurses across Guyana recognizing World Leprosy Day 2024.

28/01/2024

Today is World Leprosy Day

Theme:
“Ending Stigma; Embracing Dignity”

Leprosy is diagnosed by finding at least one of the following cardinal signs:
(1) definite loss of sensation in a pale (hypopigmented) or reddish skin patch;
(2) thickened or enlarged peripheral nerve, with loss of sensation and/or weakness of the muscles supplied by that nerve;
(3) microscopic detection of bacilli in a slit-skin smear.

18/10/2023

Region 6 Leprosy Sensitization in the
Prisons

02/10/2023

Leprosy Sensitization and Chemoprophylaxis campaign to Lethem- Annai

19/09/2023

Dermatology and Leprosy Outreach in Bara Cara, Canje Creek

18/09/2023

Preparing for the long trip to Bara Cara located on the Canje River