Leprosy isn’t just a physical disease. It also impacts mental and emotional wellbeing. By ensuring mental health support is a priority, we can tackle stigma 🤝 and promote dignity and inclusion for all 🌏#WorldLeprosyDay #EndStigma #UniteActEliminateLeprosy #ZeroDiscrimination

For millennia, people have lost sensation in their hands, feet, and eyes because of leprosy. Now, researchers are looking at a new technique that could restore feeling to hands and feet. This would be a revolutionary step in the field. bit.ly/40hbvXZ #WorldLeprosyDay

World leaders must prioritize neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in health agendas and integrate NTD targets into broader health, development, and equity goals to ensure no community is left behind. On #WorldNTDDay2025, let’s unite, act & eliminate NTDs!

Achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) 2030 roadmap targets requires innovation in medicines, diagnostics & vaccines tailored to the unique challenges of NTDs. We must prioritize funding & partnerships that drive these breakthroughs 🔬⚕️💉. This #WorldNTDDay, we call on you to #UniteActEliminate

How do you #beatnds? With concrete actions. Dr Shaali NTD focal point from the ministry of health in Zanzibar organised an activity to raise awareness on NTDs among school children to mark #worldntdday2025 👏👏👏 Kikundi @ESPEN_Juma NNN Global Schistosomiasis Alliance

At #AHAIC in Kigali, our “From Ethics to Equity” panel showcased diverse insights on ethical storytelling for better health outcomes. Among them, Nuits Balnéaires highlighted how art can break barriers and enrich narratives for #FGS and #NTDs

🚀 Don’t miss your chance to register! 🚀 Tomorrow, the NNN Cross-Cutting Groups, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) NTD team, are hosting a youth-led webinar on cross-cutting NTD initiatives. Full details & registration here ⬇️ who.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are proud to be among the disability community that has gathered this week in Berlin for the Global Disability Summit. One of the core messages from the summit is centring the voices of OPDs, something TLM is committed to doing under our new Global Strategy #GDS2025

Read Clinical data on diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence spectra of leprosy affected skin by Suwash Baral (The Leprosy Mission Nepal ) et al. leprosyreview.org/article/96/1/2… Leprosy Review Volume 96/1 #IDTwitter #GlobalHealth #Health #Leprosy

[Business Trip to Nepal] While a hundred discussions are certainly important, a single act of implementation holds even greater value. I call upon everyone here today to join hands with the Government of Nepal, and work together toward achieving zero leprosy by the year 2030.

Leprosy funding has stagnated for over a decade. Thousands go undiagnosed. Rights are violated. It’s not just a health crisis—it’s a justice issue. Check out for the English version of the Report

Social progress isn’t possible without accessible routes to inclusion. Join us online tomorrow for our United Nations side event to explore why disability rights are essential to real development. buff.ly/LebnmfZ

Innovation isn’t just about starting strong — it’s about finishing well. ✅ Reduce transmission ✅ Sustain care ✅ End discrimination ✅ Build lasting systems

Wellesley Bailey, profoundly moved by the calling to restore the dignity of those who suffer founded what is now called The Leprosy Mission in 1874. We remember him as part of our #HistoryMonth. Learn more about our history here 👉 buff.ly/TYRee9o

👏 Congratulations to all winners, including #Nepal's 🇳🇵 Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) who are being recognized for their transformative role in improving maternal & child health, increasing #immunization coverage, promoting #nutrition & managing disease #outbreaks.

हैजा बारे जानौँ, सतर्क र सुरक्षित रहौँ 👇 #Cholera #Nepal

Ethical storytelling in #NTDs is shifting power. At a #NNN2025 workshop led by The Leprosy Mission Nepal with support from Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative , The END Fund & BSMS, participants learned about Photovoice, a method that centres lived experience through respectful, collaborative storytelling.

Our The Leprosy Mission Nepal research team is at #NNN2025 NNN conference in Kampala, Uganda presenting National Institute for Health and Care Research funded studies- SHERPA & Sustainability studies.

When crisis strikes, healing isn’t just about the physical, it’s also about our hearts and minds 💔💪 Putting #MentalHealth at the centre of every emergency response saves lives, strengthens resilience, and protects communities. Leaders must make mental health a priority in

When #floods brought sleepless nights & overwhelming fear, Tirtha, a 35-year-old farmer in #Bhojpur 🇳🇵, found help at his local health post. With care supported by MoHP & World Health Organization (WHO), he found peace again & a reason to keep moving forward 🔗 shorturl.at/SOuhQ #MentalHealth #Nepal