Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)
The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) is a bilingual English/French publication and serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases.
The WER regularly includes updates of the global and regional leprosy situation. Electronic versions of these editions can be downloaded below. The documents are saved in portable document format (.pdf). To view the documents, a .pdf reader is required. Click on one of the following recent links to download the full text of the WER containing the leprosy article.
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- WER, 87, No.34 24 August 2012: Global leprosy situation, 2012
- WER, 86, No.36 2 September 2011: Leprosy Update, 2011
- WER, 85, No.35 27 August 2010: Global leprosy situation 2010
- WER, 85, No.6 5 February 2010: Leprosy fact sheet (revised February 2010)
- WER, 84, No.33 14 August 2009: Global leprosy situation 2009
- WER, 83, No.33 15 August 2008 Global leprosy situation 2008
- WER, 82, No.25 22 June 2007 Global leprosy situation 2007
- WER, 81, No.37 15 September 2006 Global Leprosy Situation 2006 (Addendum)
- WER, 78, No.29 18 July 2003: Special action projects for elimination
- WER, 81, No.32 11 August 2006 Global leprosy situation 2006
- WER, 80, No.34 26 August 2005: Global leprosy situation 2005
- WER, 80, No.13 1 April 2005: Global leprosy situation 2004
- WER, 79, No.37 10 Sept. 2004: Special campaigns for improving services
- WER, 79, No.27 2 July 2004: Twenty five years of MDT for leprosy
- WER, 78, No.3 17 Jan. 2003: Leprosy elimination campaigns: impact on case detection
- WER, 77, No.1 4 Jan. 2002: Global leprosy situation, 2000-2001