title: The 18th International Leprosy Congress: Brussels 2013--a special event.
abstract: Everything is now in place for an excellent Congress. There have been a large number of abstracts submitted of high quality and diversity. There has been a robust process of peer review with a large panel of reviewers. The Scientific Programme is based on these submissions and already there are a large number of people from all over the world registered to attend and participate. However we recognise that it is not possible for everyone to attend and so all the plenary sessions and abstracts for the Congress will be made available in the public domain after the Congress.
authors.forename: Cairns
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy; D012955:Societies, Medical