Leprosy Elimination Monitoring Tool

The Leprosy Elimination Framework was developed based on the work and recommendations of the taskforce on criteria for elimination of leprosy (TFCEL) with the aim to identify key concepts, definitions, indicators and milestones to be used by countries on the road to interruption of transmission and elimination of leprosy disease. The Leprosy Elimination Framework provides a systematic and standardised way of tracking country progress in their fight against leprosy. WHO has developed technical guidance for countries working to achieve the milestones of interruption of transmission and elimination of leprosy disease using the Leprosy Elimination Framework. The technical guidance highlights important concepts and definitions regarding leprosy elimination and includes the newly developed Leprosy Elimination Framework showing the phases of elimination and the associated indicators and milestones. The LEMT is based on these ‘phases of elimination’ and visually displays country progress towards the milestones on a national and subnational level, using the traffic light-colouring scheme that corresponds to the Leprosy Elimination Framework.