Leprosy workers in the 21st century need to focus on “Better knowledge, Early diagnosis and Improved care”, the theme of the International Leprosy Congress in Hyderabad, 2022
Open Access
- 1 March 2023
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Lepra in Leprosy Review
- Vol. 94 (1) , 2-6
Abstract
This hybrid Congress had both physical and virtual sessions with large number of symposia, lead talks, paper presentations, poster and short video presentations. There were 8 plenary sessions, 72 faculty abstracts, 423 oral papers, 20 papers given different awards and 457 e-posters. Topics covered were clinical aspects (234), diagnostics (6) disability and rehabilitation (96) epidemiology and control (198) laboratory aspects (140), miscellaneous (49), programmatic management (8), rehabilitation, both social and physical (6), social aspects (132), surgery (1) and therapeutics (57). There were 1050 physical delegates and 450 people attended electronically. Delegates came from 56 countries with an age range of 25-75 years. The abstracts are available at https://ilc.abstracts.mediknit.org/ (https://doi.org/10.57202/ ILC2022).Keywords
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