A persistência da hanseníase na Amazônia legal: Análise dos casos novos em um município prioritário do interior de Rondônia

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Samira Sbardelatti Regis Pereira and Jaqueline Ronconi Borba track leprosy in Rolim de Moura, a town in the interior of Rondonia state in Brazil's Legal Amazon. Leprosy, caused by a slow-growing bacterium, attacks mainly the skin and peripheral nerves, and Brazil remains among the three countries with the most new cases worldwide. The authors reviewed official notifications recorded in the national reporting system over six recent years, from 2020 to 2025.

Across those years the town notified just under two hundred cases, a steady presence rather than a fading one. The study ties that persistence directly to the region's health conditions: distance, poverty, and hard access to services keep the chain of transmission alive. For local health teams, the message is that leprosy in the Amazon interior is a standing public health problem shaped by social conditions, not a leftover of the past.

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Source: https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v15i9.51570