‘Focus of leprosy control programmes has to shift to address new challenges’

Yohei Sasakawa, chairperson of the non-profit The Nippon Foundation and also the World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill ambassador for leprosy …

Mother Teresa, the saint who fought against stigma of leprosy

She established a number of mobile leper clinics as early as September 1957

Anti-Leprosy Day: Leprosy elimination needs a final push

Recent developments give us hope that legal reforms are on the anvil, but it also needs a huge overhaul of mindset and notions to make those …

Why leprosy has resurfaced in India

The decision to declare the disease as eliminated in India in 2005, was a major mistake in the fight against it

At least 20,000 hidden cases of leprosy identified in less than a month

The leprosy drives aim at covering all districts in high-burden states with a prevalence rate of over one leprosy case in a population of 10,000