People with vitiligo may be unfairly treated because of some myths. Know the expert-backed facts that counter the myths.

World Vitiligo Day is celebrated on June 25 to raise awareness about vitiligo, a chronic autoimmune skin condition that ...

A woman with leprosy named Josefina Guerrero had helped soldiers in significant ways during the war, and here's how she did ...

In June 1940, as the Third Reich advanced through France, tension mounted that a German attack on the Channel Islands was imminent. Despite the reluctance of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award finalist, shares the real-life story of Josefina ...

When two children were diagnosed with leprosy in 2021, health officials knew there’s active transmission going on involving the biblical-time skin disease that many have thought has already been ...

In this report, correspondent ANIMASAHUN SALMAN sheds light on the harrowing reality faced by the children of leprosy patients living in Amanawa Camp, Sokoto State. Health workers have often cited ...

More than 1 billion men, women and children suffer from NTDs, like leprosy and Buruli ulcer. Across the world, individuals suffering from these diseases often lack access to proper medical care to ...

By Poojathmi Rivithma. Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror)- A total of 1,800 leprosy cases were reported in Sri Lanka within a year, with 12% of the patients being children under the age of 15.

Nigeria joined the global community to celebrate this year's World Leprosy Day and the importance ... They also revealed that an average of 8.3 per cent of the new cases are children below the age ...

Torn from Family at Birth Because of Parents' Leprosy, Woman Reunites with Brother 53 Years Later ... Children born to people with Hansen's disease were not allowed to stay with their parents, ...

As recently as last century, Indigenous children with leprosy were forcibly removed from their families and exiled to facilities then known as leprosariums, dotted throughout Australia. The ...