Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost ...

laid fundamental groundwork for the first effective leprosy treatment globally. But her legacy still prompts conversations about the marginalization of women and people of color in science today.

“I wasn’t interested in making another film about leprosy and its history in Greece ... but the way we approach them. I want people to watch our film as a fiction film with real characters ...

India emerges as the global capital of new cases of leprosy; spotlight on more talked about diseases like HIV & Cancer puts leprosy eradication agenda on the backburner. Leprosy is a chronic ...

Experts hope to uncover the remains of an 11th-century building that was used for 500 years as a hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into.

Ethiopia, a country of some 130 million people in northeastern Africa, officially eliminated leprosy as a public health problem in 1999, after case numbers dropped below one in 10,000. But some ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused ...