one person is diagnosed with leprosy.
25 years since the making of ‘Molokai – The Story of Father Damien’. Join us to celebrate in your state!
Shanti and Shristi navigate the challenges of leprosy in a small Nepalese village.
The armadillo is a potent – if unexpected! – ally in the fight against leprosy.
Commemorating over 150 years since the discovery of the Leprosy Bacillus, Jenny Davis shares her experience of two labs.
When Trevor and Heather Smith arrived in Thailand in 1969 to take over the medical care of nearly 1,000 leprosy patients at McKean Centre in Chiang Mai, it was the beginning of a new and exciting era in treating leprosy worldwide. For the missionary couple from Australia, it was also the beginning of the repeated challenge of coping with the misery, mud and mess of floods.
Australian music superstar Kate Ceberano is still haunted by the experience of having worked on a film that advocated for better treatment of people with leprosy.
Discriminatory laws against people affected by leprosy still exist in more than 20 countries worldwide, including Australia.
On a lovely grassy hill outside Winchester in southern England once stood a hospital named after St Mary Magdalen, the patron saint of leprosy.
There’s nothing there now, but the name of the hill—Magdalen Hill—prompted archaeologists to dig there in 2008, searching for graves that once lay next to the medieval hospital.
Jayonti, an artisan, can live a better life because of you!
Janet Walmsley is the author of When Hope Came, a new book that tells the story of Trevor and Heather Smith, which will be launched in Sydney on Saturday, November 9.
This month marks the 12th anniversary of the canonization of Marianne Cope, now known as St Marianne of Molokai.
Anandaban Hospital—meaning “Forest of Joy”—is located in a beautiful wooded mountainside about 12km south of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. It offers...
Commemorating over 150 years since the discovery of the Leprosy Bacillus, Jenny Davis shares her experience of two labs... This...
The brief but brilliant career of US chemist Alice Ball, who brought hope and new life to thousands of leprosy patients in the 20s and 30s, was almost lost to history, but a recent film highlights her life-changing work.
Australian music superstar Kate Ceberano is still haunted by the experience of having worked on a film that advocated for...
On a lovely grassy hill outside Winchester in southern England once stood a hospital named after St Mary Magdalen, the...
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