WHO calls on India to ensure leprosy-free world
2016-05-30
For three years, Uttar Pradesh farmhand Pradeep Kumar, 24, has been treated for a disease that India largely eliminated 11 years ago: Leprosy, one of humankind’s oldest diseases—is notorious for the visible disfigurement of victims and their subsequent ostracisation. In 1991, when India began economic liberalisation, leprosy was reported inContinue Reading