A new book tells of how leprosy became a byword for segregation and fear, while the 200,000 people newly diagnosed a year are ...

A Contact Cohorts Analysis (COCOA) study, conducted in four districts of north-western Bangladesh, found that leprosy can ...

Leprosy resurfaces in India due to climate change, poverty, and stigma, demanding urgent interventions and visibility.

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

But is there more to the miracle? This brief article will explore the biblical-theological significance of the leper’s ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

Leprosy, as Oliver Basciano notes in his fascinating and humane book Outcast, is more than an illness. It’s a byword, a ...

REGARDLESS of his health condition, Mea Tamate says leprosy is curable and stigma and discrimination is the killer.

Residents of the leper colony in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo and Okobaba Destitute Home, Ebute Metta, Lagos State, are trapped ...

(RNS) — Pentecost reminds us that collective action, inspired by hope and guided by faith, is transformative.

Vitiligo is a skin condition that doesn’t harm a person physically However the social stigma and myths associated with it can ...