‘A Normal Man Would Not Want Me’: A Heartbreaking Look At Leprosy In 2017

This treatment, which the World Health Organization began offering for free in 1995, worked wonders in Myanmar ? for a while, anyway. Thanks in part to a global effort, spearheaded by the WHO, to stamp out leprosy, Myanmar was able to significantly reduce the prevalence of the disease. In 2000, the WHO declared that leprosy had been eliminated as a health threat across much of the world. Myanmar, only slightly behind the curve, achieved elimination in 2003.