The World Health Organization (WHO), together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), congratulates Chile for ...

By Sr. Christine Masivo, CPS According to the Vatican’s Fides news agency, Vietnam has achieved notable progress in the fight against leprosy. In 2025, only 38 new cases were recorded nationwide, the ...

T he World Health Organization (WHO) has officially verified Chile as having eliminated leprosy, making it the first country in the Americas to do so and only the second worldwide.

Chile becomes the first country in the America to eliminate leprosy, verified by WHO and PAHO, marking a major public health ...

TOKYO, July 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a landmark gathering that placed lived experience at the center of global health discourse, the 3rd Global Forum of People's Organizations on Hansen's Disease ...

Chile has become the first country in the Americas to be officially verified by the World Health Organization for eliminating ...

The settlement, on an isolated peninsula on the island of Molokai, was home to a community of thousands of people forced into ...

TOKYO, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Initiative and the University of Bergen are organizing a two-day conference in Bergen, Norway, on June 21-22, 2023, to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Molokai, where the Ball Method successfully treated leprosy sufferers. Albert Pierce Taylor Hansen’s disease, also ...

(Reuters) - Active in the ancient civilisations of China, Egypt and India, and rampant in 13th century Europe, leprosy still affects over 290,000 people around the world today. Here are some facts ...

"Leprosy one of a number of diseases that was associated with race. It became another way to segregate and keep black people ...