our projects: myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) has highest prevalence of leprosy: 5.9 cases per 10,000 people. The 2006 Budget for Myanmar is $268,095. Today leprosy can be cured with MDT (multidrug therapy). Gifts to cure may be made online.
Leprosy case-finding is difficult and expensive because of geography and lack of roads.
Distances are often measured in days walking and it takes a long time to visit a few patients.
The average cost to cure and rehabilitate one person with leprosy is $300. This amount covers training, transportation and other activities to locate people with leprosy and enroll them in treatment programs.
