WHO Expert Committee on Leprosy

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

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.