Leprosy programme misses projected case and disability targets
Quick dive
- India reported 91,783 new leprosy cases in 2025-26, 41.2% above the projected 65,000 cases.
- New child cases were 91.6% above projection, while Grade 2 Disability among new cases was 1.34 per million against a one-per-million projection.
- National prevalence was 0.56 cases per 10,000 population at end-March 2026, below the elimination threshold of one case per 10,000.
- Single-dose rifampicin post-exposure prophylaxis reached 91.2% of 16.94 lakh eligible contacts in 2025-26.
- exam_relevance: tests the contrast between elimination as a prevalence threshold and continuing transmission/disability burden, plus SDR-PEP; UPSC Prelims 2018 asked about elimination versus eradication concepts and Mains GS2 has examined public-health programme outcomes, so these paired 2025-26 indicators are article-specific evidence.
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