Endemicity, disability and neglect: Leprosy in Colombia 2007-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disability due to leprosy in Colombia is a neglected public health problem. This work aims to describe the magnitude of leprosy in Colombia, the spatiotemporal distribution of the disability and explore the potential relationship between individual and treatment delay characteristics with degrees of disability.

Methods

Official leprosy data in Colombia between 2007 and 2020 were analyzed. The distribution of the grade 2 disability (G2D) rate was estimated. A Poisson spatiotemporal model was constructed to form clusters of municipalities with risk of G2D. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to quantify the relationships between patient characteristics and disability grades 1 (G1D) and 2 (G2D).

Results

During the fourteen-year period, 5240 lepros

SUBMITTER: Arango-Usuga C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453248 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature