Healthcare Projects
What We Do
The Leprosy Mission’s hospitals are centres of excellence that provide an exceptional level of care to leprosy patients as well as meeting the general medical needs of their surrounding communities.
Leprosy is a disease that can cause serious complications, all of which require medical treatment. Through our network of hospitals, clinics, mobile clinics, and orthopaedic workshops, we offer the support that people need to lead healthy, happy lives of dignity and respect.
Through our healthcare centres we provide reconstructive surgeries, physiotherapy, assistive devices, treatment of ulcers and leprosy reaction, and counselling. Through these services we are able to address all of the medical needs that a person affected might face because of the disease.
Your Hospitals and Clinics
Hospitals and clinics in India and Nepal provide lifesaving, transformative treatment, and care to marginalised groups around the world.
Self Care
We empower patients to independently care for their own wounds and ulcers to prevent damage and disability.
Our Healthcare Projects
Indonesia
Leprosy Friendly Village Desaku
Villages are important places for people to have community and a sense of belonging. Unfortunately, due to misinformation and a lack of understanding, patients with leprosy are marginalised, feared and discriminated against, even by the health workers who are suppose to be treating them.
Timor-Leste
Improved Leprosy Services
The Improved Leprosy Services (ILS) Project in Timor-Leste, will keep up the work of the Better Health project (which concluded in 2019) in three districts, and expand to a fourth – Manatuto – which has seen a worrying trend of emerging leprosy cases recently.
Nigeria
Strengthening Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease Control in Zamfara
This project aims to increase access to quality leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (LF) and disability services within an integrated health system for communities in Zamfara, Nigeria.
Nepal
Unconditional Love like Jesus - Your unconditional love
Your unconditional love can restore the life of someone affected by leprosy this World Leprosy Sunday
Indonesia
Urban Leprosy, Kotaku
The urban population, particularly around the capital city of Jakarta is rapidly expanding with rural migration, as people come to the city in search of work. With the high cost of living in cities, many people end up living in urban slums, where there is inadequate housing, poor sanitation, poor hygiene and crowded living environments. These conditions increase the risk of leprosy transmission.
Nepal
Nepal Self Care Unit- Nepal
You can give people affected by leprosy and disability Nepal healing, hope and the help they desperately need to lead a healthier and fulfilling future. By making a donation to the Anandaban Self Care Unit in Nepal, you’ll be making a real difference — giving people affected by leprosy help to prevent or assist them with their disabilities and restore them to their families and communities.
Nepal
No child should suffer leprosy
No child should suffer leprosy.Your urgent action now offers new life! Sometimes the suffering is just too much. What Satendra did to try to escape the suffering of leprosy is heartbreaking… Satendra was a boy. Just a boy.
India
Mobile Care Units in India
You can help provide mobile clinics in India. Give vital medical care to leprosy patients who would otherwise go without.
Unconditional Love like Jesus
Your unconditional love can restore the life of someone affected by leprosy this World Leprosy Sunday
Nepal
Jhapa Leprosy Reduction
Following the successful conclusion of the RECLAIM II project, which supported 10 Self-Help Groups to become independent in eastern Nepal, the Jhapa Leprosy Reduction project has been established to increase our focus on reducing leprosy transmission in children under 18 years.
The Leprosy Mission Australia is a member of the Australian Council for International Development and is a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct. The Code requires members to meet high standards of corporate governance, public accountability, and financial management. The Leprosy Mission Australia is committed to full adherence to the ACFID Code of Conduct. More information about the ACFID Code of Conduct may be obtained by contacting The Leprosy Mission Australia or visiting the ACFID website. Complaints relating to a breach of the ACFID Code of Conduct can be made to the ACFID Code of Conduct Committee.
We are committed to disability-inclusive development.
The Leprosy Mission Australia is a member of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand, a network of organisations that support fairness in prices and wages, improved market access and poverty alleviation