WHO Expert Committee on Leprosy is constituted by World Health Organization to study the worldwide progress of leprosy.

Contents

• Members
• Reports
• References

Members

At one point it held among its members Heráclides César de Souza Araújo, a leprosy researcher from Brasil.

Reports

• First report published as Technical Report Series No. 71 in 1954.
• Second report published as Technical Report Series No. 189 in 1960. ^[1]
• Third report published as Technical Report Series No. 319 in 1966.
• Fourth report published as Technical Report Series No. 459 in 1970.
• Fifth report published as Technical Report Series No. 607 in 1977. ^[2]
• Sixth report published as Technical Report Series No. 768 in 1988.
• Seventh report published as Technical Report Series No. 874 in 1998. ^[3] They concluded that a single dose of a combination of rifampicin, ofloxacin and minocycline is an acceptable and cost-effective alternative regimen for the treatment of single-lesion paucibacillary leprosy and the duration of the standard regimen for multibacillary leprosy could be shortened to 12 months.
• Eighth report published as ISBN   978-92-4-120968-7 in 2012.

References