International leprosy congress, Beijing, 7-12 september 1998: working toward a world without leprosy

摘要

The 15~th International Congress in Beijing was attended by over 1000 people, 350 of them from the People's Republic of China, where so much progress has been made in recent years towards the aim of basic eradication as described in this journal by Ma Haide and Ye Ganyun in 1982. International delegates came from virtually all countries where leprosy is still endemic, with an appropriately high representation from India and other parts of South-East Asia, which currently account for over 591,000 of the total of 828,803 registered Cases.