"The stigma of leprosy is the community that hinder the implementation of leprosy disease prevention programs in this area," said Foreign Aid in charge of Netherlands Leprosy Relief (NLR-MONTH) Dr Andi Suryanto Asapa, when met at his office in Makassar, on Monday.
He regretted the low participation of the community, especially people with leprosy to report his condition to the health center and the nearest hospital. As a result, the handling of this disease through a program recognized not been able to run optimally.
In fact, he said, the government has gained full support from donor agencies from the Netherlands (NLR) to perform the handling and prevention of leprosy that is recognized is still quite large in Indonesia, particularly the South.
"Control of leprosy is a very complex problem. The disease is not just about medical problems alone, but the psychosocial and economic problems of society," he concluded.
"The problem of leprosy is not only the responsibility of health office, even though these issues require the involvement of stakeholders such as Social Services, Education, Religion, and the community," he complained.
Actually, he added, that leprosy is a contagious disease can be cured by taking medications Multi Drug Therapy (MDT) which was found in 1982. In fact, since 1995, WHO has provided drugs free MDT for leprosy patients worldwide.
This free drug administration was still not enough to overcome the problem of leprosy in South Sulawesi, but the level of knowledge about leprosy and the stigma that is still strong in society is limited control of this disease.
"In 2000, Indonesia has reached the national leprosy elimination. It's just that, at provincial and district level, there are 13 provinces and 125 districts that have not achieved elimination, one of them in South Sulawesi province," he said.
In 2004 the South Sulawesi provincial government established a forum of the Regional Alliance Elimination of Leprosy (Adek) whose objective was to gain political support and sustainability of the activities are integrated in the elimination of leprosy in South Sulawesi.
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