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Posted on 28 July 2010 by
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Posted on 27 July 2010 by
On 19th July The Mainichi Daily News reported that a table used for autopsies on leprosy patients at the Oshimasishoen National Sanatorium had been lifted from the Japanese Inland Sea in early July 2010. Approximately twenty-five years ago, when the autopsy room was being demolished to make way for a new recovery wing, it had been thrown into the sea. This table is to be displayed at an art festival until the end of October 2010.
Categories: Japan, News and Notes
Posted on 15 July 2010 by
Seeing the value, dignity and inspiration in each person is the theme of the latest newsletter published by the International Association for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement, IDEA, the international human rights and advocacy organisation working to end stigma and discrimination against all persons affected by leprosy.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 9 July 2010 by
Shri M Hamid Ansari, the Vice-President of India, was in Sewagram in Wardha district on 1st July 2010 to present the 2009 International Gandhi Award to Vidarbha Maharogi Sewa Mandal, a non-governmental organisation for leprosy patients, and Dr Vijaykumar Pannikar, former Team Leader of the Global Leprosy Programme.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 25 June 2010 by
The WHO's 25th June 2010 issue of the Weekly Epidemiological Record documents leprosy control in Indonesia from 1991-2008.
Categories: Indonesia, News and Notes