@misc{23787,
  keywords = {World Health Assembly, WHO, WHA, leprosy},
  author = {World Health Assembly },
  title = {Resolution WHA 40.35 : "Towards the elimination of leprosy".},
  abstract = {<p>The WHA - at its 40th plenary Meeting - urges&nbsp;Member States with endemic leprosy:</p>

<p>(1) to allocate adequate priority to and resources for leprosy control within their public health services as part of primary health care;</p>

<p>(2) to strengthen health education through the media and community participation with a view to overcoming the stigma and phobias traditionally associated with the disease in many societies, and to institute adequate legal guarantees protecting the rights of cured leprosy patients;</p>
},
  year = {1987},
  volume = {Resolution WHA40.35},
  pages = {2 p.},
  month = {15 May 1987},
  publisher = {World Health Organization },
  address = {Geneva},
  url = {http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/mediacentre/WHA_40.35_Eng.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}