{"id":3590,"date":"2023-01-31T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:07:40","slug":"world-leprosy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-leprosy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Leprosy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Leprosy Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, it is observed on 30th January every year, coinciding with the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The theme of World Leprosy Day 2023 is <strong>\u201cAct Now. End Leprosy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Leprosy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a chronic infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria, <strong>Mycobacterium leprae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The disease predominantly affects the <strong>skin and peripheral nerves<\/strong> if left untreated, the disease may cause progressive and permanent disabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission: <\/strong>The bacteria are transmitted via droplets from the nose and mouth during close and frequent contact with untreated cases.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of annual new case detections are from <strong>South-East Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) which still occurs in more than 120 countries, with more than 200 000 new cases reported each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>India\u2019s Initiatives related to Leprosy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government launched <strong>National Leprosy Eradication Programme<\/strong> (NLEP) to make India leprosy free.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>Centrally Sponsored Scheme<\/strong> under the umbrella of the National Health Mission (NHM).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is implemented in all the States\/UTs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Global Initiatives related to Leprosy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>World Health Organisation:<\/strong> The Global Leprosy Strategy 2021\u20132030 \u201cTowards zero leprosy\u201d was developed through a broad consultative process with all major stakeholders during 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the objective National Health Mission?<\/h3>\n<p>This mission envisages the achievement of universal access to equitable, affordable &amp; quality healthcare services that are accountable and responsive to people&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/lifestyle\/health\/world-leprosy-day-2023-hansens-disease-symptoms-treatment-8410712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>World Leprosy Day 2023: Know about this chronic infectious disease, its symptoms, and treatment.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria, Mycobacterium leprae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}