Currently there is little support for victims or treatment programmes for perpetrators, who are often repeat offenders.
In New Zealand, my team and I won two awards for our work on developing mental health treatment programmes for women prisoners.
Most are people who have had no success with conventional medical treatments, or who have devised treatment programmes for themselves which they want her to verify.
LF and leprosy are not linked, but Lepra has found that its work on LF feeds back into its advocacy and treatment programmes for leprosy.
Under the new reforms, the government would consider alternative forms of dealing with offenders, including satellite-tagging technology and "problem-solving courts" which would order offenders into treatment programmes for issues such as drug addiction.
The Commons home affairs committee says that the scale of addiction to prescription drugs in Britain is far greater than those who are in treatment programmes for illegal drugs.
In the past 10 years, the global community has made tremendous progress in scaling up treatment programmes for those living with HIV in communities and towns once regarded as too remote to support distribution of antiretroviral drugs.
Veterans Aid, whch last year assisted 458 veterans in crisis, will be able to expand their substance abuse and mental health treatment programmes for homeless and in-need veterans with an award of £160,000.
If Mr Delanoë scores higher for creativity, it is with ideas to bring unused private housing into public management, or to employ the legions of jobless young to guard school crossings and so free the police to fight crime, or to offer better-directed treatment programmes for drug addicts.
Researchers hope it could improve exercise treatment programmes for people with early stage dementia.
They can also include treatment programmes for drug addiction or mental health conditions.
