Morhen divided the lands of the former colony of Maracanaú between former leprosy patients to enable families to live together and be integrated into a single community. Grandchildren can live without leprosy now next to his grandparents who are infected. Despite the continued decline in HIV prevalence since 1991 coincides with the introduction by the Ministry of Health, the official scheme of multidrug therapy with fixed-dose treatment (6 doses for ways to pauci and multibacillary 24) revealing the importance of this factor operating in this reduction.