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and benchmarks; community-based strategies; the availability of counselling and peer
counselling; and the establishment of a referral network of relevant professionals;
(e)
Respond to the current and varied needs of persons affected by Hansen’s
disease, encompassing those who have been cured and those undergoing treatment,
taking a human rights-based approach by simultaneously enforcing the rights of older
persons affected by Hansen’s disease in three core dimensions – ageing, psychosocial
and physical disabilities, and gender – and enforcing an efficient and comprehensive
response from the public health system to the contemporary epidemiological and
sociological profile of Hansen’s disease as a rare disease;
(f)
Provide resources to register existing good practices and scale them up
into the field of international North-South and triangular cooperation relations.
Support the application to include the Nagashima-aiseien Sanatorium on the
UNESCO World Heritage List. Support the due recognition of older persons’ rights in
international human rights law.
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