Sus and Hansen's Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment and Control

Previously, access to healthcare services was exclusive to social security contributors, with everyone else being treated only by charitable services. With the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS), which made public healthcare a duty of the State and a right of every citizen, the population gained the right to consult and treat diseases such as leprosy, an infectious, slow-progressing and chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium Leprae. It is easily diagnosed, treatable and curable. T...