By: Cathy Cañares Yamsuan – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / January 26, 2020 In the late 1990s, “Normie,” then 27 and a mother of two toddlers, noticed a whitish patch growing near her right elbow. She recalled thinking that she had contracted a skin ailment and proceeded to treat it with all kinds of medicines, including very expensive ones: “Akala […]
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Partners in Leprosy Action: A community skin health approach to serve the Filipino
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Partners In Leprosy Action (PILA) was piloted in 2006 under the Philippine Leprosy Mission, a NGO where I devote my extension work as UP faculty.
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Partners In Leprosy Action receives the UP Gawad Pangulo Award for Excellence in Public Service
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Partners in Leprosy Action (PILA) becomes one of five projects deemed worthy to be awarded the 3rd Gawad Pangulo Award for Excellence
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Philippine Leprosy Mission Wins at the 2017 Galderma SKINPACT Awards – Asia Pacific
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The 2017 Galderma SKINPACT Award for Community Leadership in Dermatology (Community Vote) was given to the Philippine Leprosy Mission (PLM) for the project entitled “Partners in Leprosy Action (PILA): A community skin health strategy as a combined approach to detecting skin- related Neglected Tropical Diseases”. Among 105 entries from the Asia- Pacific region, this project […]
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Ako si Dazelle …sana huwag kayo lumayo kahit malaman nyo na nagkasakit ako ng leprosy. Noong una kong makita ang mga namumuting marka sa iba’t-ibang bahagi ng aking katawan, kinabahan ako at nagpunta ako agad sa dermatologist. Agad naman akong pina-biopsy ng doctor at nakita na positibo ako sa sa sakit na leprosy. Mula noon […]
The Philippine Leprosy Mission’s initiative, Partners in Leprosy Action (PILA) was selected as one of the final 25 Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) cases. The 25 selected initiatives present high impact solutions that have been able to improve the care delivered to people affected by neglected tropical and infectious diseases. The SIHI is a […]
February 11, 2014
The Department of Health, declared the third (3rd) week of February of every year as Leprosy Prevention and Control Week. To observe this occasion, the Philippine Leprosy Mission will promote the importance of skin health and encourage the public with skin problems to consult at the local health centers. PLM will also conduct free skin consultations (for any skin ailments) […]
The Philippine Leprosy Mission (PLM), a non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to the cure and care of persons affected by leprosy, is continuing its advocacy and partnership with the Department of Health to control leprosy in hyper-endemic areas. Despite the discovery of medicine to treat the disease and the continuous effort to ensure that they receive […]
Contributor: Pearl Weena Sabido, MD Juan, a pedicab driver, was diagnosed with leprosy (Hansen’s disease). He has since lost his home, been abandoned by his wife, and even had his own parents turn their backs on him. It began as a reddish, numb swelling on the top of his left foot which soon worsened until […]