It is common for leprosy patients to experience rejection from friends, family, and society. They are cast out because people are afraid of catching the disease. Sadly, they don't know that this is a curable condition. The wounds usually limit a person's ability to...
Our team approaches self-care in a few different ways, namely through education and awareness. We teach people how to recognize early signs of leprosy so they can receive treatment quickly to fight the disease and slow the spread of infection. Early detection leads to...
Leprosy may start with discoloration or irritation of the skin, but this disease is far more than skin deep. While the physical impact of this debilitating disease is astounding, we often forget to look past the physical ailments and see the emotional and spiritual...
Throughout the Bible, we meet people living with leprosy. At city gates, on the border of neighboring countries, in small towns, and along the roads of Jerusalem, men, women, and children lived with what was considered an unclean disease. A disease that made them...
As we move into the new year, we would like to take a moment to reflect on a sweet testimony from our friend, Harikrishnan, or “Hari.” Hari was ten years old when he noticed patches on his hands and legs. His parents thought it was a skin allergy from a worm or...
Children of those with leprosy face significant barriers in attaining an education. Although healthy themselves, they are stigmatized and often turned away from schools because of their connection to the disease. They also very likely have grown up in poverty, putting...
Many times people with leprosy cannot travel due to various wounds or other effects of the disease. Leprosy often takes away their ability to work which prevents them from being able to pay for medical care. It also inhibits their ability to care for their families,...
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If we asked you to name a disease that affects our world today, most likely you would think of cancer, not leprosy. Many people tend to view leprosy as a disease from Biblical times, and rarely do we consider that it’s still affecting people today. While leprosy has...
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