WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office has urged its Member States to make a final push to address leprosy in the Region. In 1991, WHO launched a global campaign to eliminate leprosy as a public health threat and set a leprosy elimination target of less than one case per 10000 of population. In that same year, the Western Pacific Region met the elimination target. Over the past two decades, new leprosy cases in the Western Pacific Region have declined by nearly 90%. Political commitment is all that is needed now to finish the job. We have the drugs and we have the knowledge, therefore WHO has urged Member States to make a final push to eliminate leprosy in the Region.
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