Leprosy, discovered by a Norwegian, still causing harm today?

For this month: Leprosy is an important disease to decode how society has constructed stigma against it throughout the history. Historically, stigma against diseases such as Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Epilepsy and mental healh diseases has been important in understanding how society has been responding to these diseases and how we can intervene to reduce the stigma.

In recent years, stigma against HIV, same sex relations and the disability causing conditions are still afflciting the population affected. While Leprosy is declining worldwide, stigma is not.

This month’s talk will be presented by Drs Bipin Adhikari (University of Oxford) and Nils Kaehler (Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute) who conducted studies on leprosy in Thailand and Nepal in 2012-13.