The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all States and Union Territories to constitute committees to identify and catalogue ...

On May 10, the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 23 — Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy — a disease ... a dozen people with the disease, mostly women, make rugs, traditional clothing and jewellery. The modest ...

Those of us who have been stigmatized because we have a disease called Hansen’s disease, more commonly known as leprosy, know first hand that he definitely was “for the people.” In 2016 ...

Ethiopia, a country of some 130 million people in northeastern Africa, officially eliminated leprosy ... disease, mostly women, make rugs, traditional clothing and jewellery. The modest salary ...

That helped us almost get [to elimination ... are often unsure of where they came from. Also, because leprosy has become a rare disease, expertise or knowledge about the condition has waned ...

In the Vietnamese highlands lives a colony of people suffering from a chronic infectious disease ... leprosy. But when Monsignor Roger Landry — director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA ...

Today, most psychologists do not use one test to determine IQ, but a variety of instruments that measure various aspects of cognitive ability. They also may consider attention span and various ...

such as the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and the Armauer Hansen Research Institute, stressing the importance of strengthening and expanding these facilities to bolster disease prevention efforts ...