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The Damien Foundation in China
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Non-combined programmes
The fight against leprosy and tuberculosis is not combined in China. The cure rate for leprosy is excellent and for tuberculosis good. However, there is an enormous amount of work still to be done. It is essential that the whole population should be able to benefit from real access to quality health services, but this evolution is particularly difficult.
Fastest growth
It is not to be denied that the China project has experienced the fastest growth in recent years. Currently, it is among the Foundation's most important four projects. Overall, what the Foundation does is to concentrate on training supervision and monitoring. The idea is to improve the capacity of each medical team. The teams must be in a position to respond to the challenges that confront the programmes.
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| Start of the project |
1982 |
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| Local partners |
Ministry of Health |
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| Type of project |
• Initially leprosy
• Since 1995, leprosy and tuberculosis have been tackled jointly
• Today's scene - leprosy in Guangxi; tuberculosis in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and Guizhou
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| Population covered in 2007 |
70.680.418 |
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| Patients detected and treated in 2007 |
• 77.469 tuberculosis patients
• 74 leprosy patients
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| Expenditure in 2007 |
1.105.980 euros |
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For more details on China ?
Please  download our detailed account.
For more information on any of our projects,
Please consult our 2007 activity report.
Download (PDF, 2,2 MB)
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