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Posted on 18/01/2012 by
In an interview aired on 17th January 2012 on BBC Regional Look East News Sarah Nancollas, Chief Executive of LEPRA Health in Action, explained their hope that Aardman Animations will issue an apology for showing the arm falling off someone with leprosy in their latest animated film due for release this March.
Categories: Members, News and Notes
Posted on 17/01/2012 by
For years, Members of ILEP has been fighting to correct discriminatory and wrong perceptions of leprosy. It is therefore dismayed to see the official trailer for the new animated Aardman production The Pirates! Band of Misfits making a sick joke of someone affected by leprosy losing an arm.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 17/01/2012 by
Mr René Stäheli, Chief Executive of FAIRMED, has begun his second three-year term as President of the ILEP Federation following re-election by trustees at their most recent meeting.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 13/01/2012 by
For the first time in its history, the European Region of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) will be holding its meeting in Western rather than Eastern Europe. The Conference will be in London 4th – 6th July 2012. The organisers are calling for abstracts to be submitted by 31st January 2012.
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Posted on 13/12/2011 by
The message on my mobile phone was brief and tersely worded – ‘Dr Fritschi: expired in Vellore. Funeral details will follow’. The words took me twenty-five years back in time – to a rural hospital in Tamil Nadu, 200 kilometres from Madras. I had just joined...
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