World Health Organization's (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination Yohei Sasakawa called on academics, medical stakeholders, and those affected by the disease to unite towards "Zero Leprosy".
Sasakawa, chairperson of The Nippon Foundation (TNF) -- one of Japan's largest private organizations, is attending two key global conferences on the diseases -- the first is the Global Forum of People's Organizations on Hansen's disease (leprosy) slated Sept. 7-10 and the 20th International Leprosy Congress (ILC) to be held from Sept. 11 to 13 this year.
Sasakawa, recipient of the 2019 Order of the Rising Sun as well as the 2018 Gandhi Peace Prize, will also call on experts to continue working on discovering the causes of transmission of t...