Leprosy and Health-related Stigmas
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Leprosy and Health-related Stigmas
Christina Less
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Often forced into isolation…
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Mistreatment due to human difference
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social disqualification based on certain health problems
Health-related stigma:
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“We refuse to allow others to define ourselves, our humanity, by a disease.”~Bernard Ka’owakaokalani
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A seemingly harmless discoloration
is the beginning of
disease.
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Permanent limb, skin, and nerve damage.
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the diseased do not seek out treatment.
Scared of social discrimination…
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The meaning has a greater impact.
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India is a society rooted in a conditioned
set of beliefs.
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Whole families are forced from their villages.
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“Cries of mourning, as if he was already dead.”
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There are more than a thousand leper colonies in India today.
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We need to provide relief.
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A basis for transforming the way that lepers live.
Giving them a new way of life.
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A disease of generations: families are affected by leprosy as well.
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