• Guiding principles:

o  Responsibility of national governments and partnerships

o  Sustaining expertise in leprosy

o  Quality leprosy services, with children as focus

o  Participation of persons affected by leprosy

o  Protection of human rights and reducing social suffering.

• Future options:

o  Innovations, in addition to or replacing current practices (improved diagnostics, improved treatment regimens, novel drugs, chemoprophylaxis, vaccines, mapping, stigma reduction, surveillance.

• Global leprosy strategy 2016-2020, “Accelerating towards a leprosy-free world”.