LEPRA Health in Action (formerly known as the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association) is a health and medical development charity fighting diseases of poverty and working towards a world without leprosy (Hansen's disease). Diseases of poverty include: leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS.
The organisation was founded in 1924 by Sir Leonard Rogers in an attempt to cure all cases of leprosy within the (then) British Empire. In the 1930s it became associated with Toc H and its founder, the Reverend 'Tubby' Clayton, and volunteers were recruited to go to Africa and India, which had some of the highest incidences of the disease.
LEPRA Health in Action currently works in some of the most deprived areas around the world. The organisation runs a broad range of projects across nine countries to fight diseases of poverty.
In Latin America LEPRA is working in Guatemala, Colombia and Brazil. In Asia it runs a large number of projects in India (LEPRA India), alongside work in Bangladesh. In Africa it is active in Malawi and Mozambique. LEPRA Health in Action also supports the work of Association Française Raoul Follereau fighting leprosy in Madagascar.
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