Background: Making leprosy history in low-burden countries is a crucial step in achieving the World Health Organization’s 2021–2030 Global Leprosy Strategy. Since leprosy has been contained at the ...

Leprosy has existed for more than 3,000 years and is the one of the oldest diseases known to humanity. Though a cure is available, 200,000 individuals are still diagnosed with the disease each year.

"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 ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 23 — 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 ...

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.

ADDIS ABABA — 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 ...

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petition filed seeking basic facilities in Government Leprosy Home in Y.Pudhupatti, Madurai. The litigant, J Moogambigai of Madurai, stated that nearly 75 inmates are living in a pathetic ...

Experts hope to uncover a 500-year-old hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into. Ms Sam Tipper, a senior lecturer from Anglia Ruskin university ...

Experts hope to uncover the remains of an 11th-century building that was used for 500 years as a hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into.