when was the last reported case of leprosy
Leprosy Leprosy is curable with a treatment known as multidrug therapy.[3] Treatment for paucibacillary leprosy is with the medications dapsone and rifampicin for six months.[2] Treatment for multibacillary leprosy consists of rifampicin, dapsone, and clofazimine for 12 months.[2] A number of other antibiotics may also be used.[2] These treatments are provided free of charge by the World Health Organization.[3] Globally in 2012, the number of chronic cases of leprosy was 189,000, down from some 5.2 million in the 1980s.[3][8][9] The number of new cases was 230,000.[3] Most new cases occur in 16 countries, with India accounting for more than half.[3][2] In the past 20 years, 16 million people worldwide have been cured of leprosy.[3] About 200 cases are reported per year in the United States.[10]
Poliomyelitis eradication In 1988, the World Health Organization, together with Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, with the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000. The Initiative was inspired by Rotary International's 1985 pledge to raise $120 million toward immunising all of the world's children against the disease.[69] The last case of wild poliovirus poliomyelitis in the Americas was reported in Peru, August 1991.[69]