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

American chemist Alice Ball revolutionized leprosy treatment by making chaulmoogra oil injectable, decades before antibiotics ...

The Supreme Court on May 8 directed the States to form a Committee to identify the provisions in their laws, rules, ...

In the photos, many of the patients’ scribbles on the walls are fragmentary and incomprehensible. But the family names of Kensuke Mitsuda (1876-1964), the first director of Nagashima Aiseien ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused to ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy — a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia — he also lost his family. “My family abandoned me.

The disease was declared eliminated as a health problem globally in 2000, according to the WHO. But leprosy is still present in more than 120 countries worldwide, with nearly 200,000 cases ...

"My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused to speak to me," said Tilahun, 46, a farmer in Ethiopia's populous Oromia region, who contracted leprosy around 10 years ago. Ethiopia ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused ...