Human Rights and Leprosy

Righting the Wrongs of Leprosy

Encourages Governments to make every effort to include leprosy education in school curricula so as to give correct information about leprosy and leprosy patients and their families and prevent discrimination against them

Discrimination against leprosy victims and families

Infectious Illnesses as the measles and leprosy

Discrimination against leprosy victims and their families

Discrimination against leprosy victims and their families

Leprosy is one of the world s oldest diseases.

Even today, many mistaken notions about leprosy persist.

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Unchecked, leprosy disfigures and can result in permanent disability.

But the facts about leprosy are hardly so odious.

Today, leprosy is cured by multi drug therapy (MDT), a course of treatment that kills, after the first dose alone, 99.9 of the bacteria that cause leprosy.

Caught early and addressed promptly, leprosy need leave no trace.

And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,

The following strategies will be pursued for eliminating leprosy by 2006

In 1991 the World Health Assembly began an attempt to eliminate leprosy.

Vice President of the Society Mission for Leprosy in Pakistan at Rawalpindi.

This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

Leprosy, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, sickle cell anaemia, cataracts, trachoma, dental caries, mental illnesses.

And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh

If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest

For much of its long history, leprosy was feared as an incurable, disfiguring disease.

It is important to emphasize, too, that leprosy can be cured at any time.

A comprehensive campaign against the major diseases (STD AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition).

Even members of the medical profession have been known to discriminate against patients with leprosy.

Leprosy is thus an infectious disease it is not hereditary, let alone a divine punishment.

Programmes against leprosy, tuberculosis, river blindness (onchocerciasis), diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections, malaria, Buruli ulcers.

Requests Governments, if they have not yet done so, to abolish legislation that requires forced institutionalization of leprosy patients and to provide effective, prompt and free treatment to leprosy patients on an outpatient basis if they so wish

Requests Governments, if they have not yet done so, to abolish legislation that requires forced institutionalization of leprosy patients and to provide effective, prompt and free treatment to leprosy patients on an outpatient basis if they so wish

When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

Further requests Governments to immediately prohibit discrimination of any type against leprosy victims and their families

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Bobo called me on the phone from Yale Medical School, and Bobo said, Shawn, I have leprosy.

Educational opportunities, job prospects, married life, family relationships, and community participation are all potentially threatened by leprosy.

As the World Health Organization s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, I have long campaigned for this outcome.

In virtually every country in the world, leprosy is no longer regarded as a public health problem.

When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest

to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.

When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean this is the law of leprosy.

And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.