Comments on: Fight leprosy. Fight stigma.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:22:00 +0000

Hi Rachel, Will I ever remember to come back here again to reply? Do you know what happened to your family? Where were they sent for quarantine. Let’s share more info…

email me at hoonoo@aol:disqus.com

Linda

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:50:27 +0000

Hello Linda, I know you left this reply a long time ago but I felt I had to reply. My great-great-grandfather also had leprosy and lived in Bermuda. I’m not sure when he caught the disease – probably about 1910-20. He and his daughter both caught leprosy – he caught it from a man with leprosy that he had lent his tools to (he was a stonemason). A very sad tale, they were also stigmatised by the community.

By: Erica Hale

Erica Hale — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:31:20 +0000

i find hansens disease a very unfortunate disease as well as any other disease that isolates people and stigmatizes them. i hope that someday i can be like you and do something to help.

By: Linda George Brown

Linda George Brown — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:31:33 +0000

My uncles had leprosy as children in 1925. They were taken from the family and one died in quarentine. How incredibly sad for my immigrant grandmother. They came to NJ from Bermuda in 1919 and it was there that the boys probably contracted the disease.

Thank you for your interest and your work.

By: jesus babu

jesus babu — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:47:03 +0000

Hi Neha, I like ur article, my name is jesus babu im working with Leporsy community in Nellore Andhra Pradesh, Thank u so much for sharing abt Leorsy. Ur using my photo, we Sevalifeproject.com trying to help in the community also we r runing children’s home and school for this Seva jyothi Leprsy colony. We need ur support.

Thank U

By: neha

neha — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:03:25 +0000

As Doug states below, the treatment is available free of cost, I think the main problem is poor self reporting, which again is linked to the issue of social stigma.

By: neha

neha — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:01:46 +0000

Thank you so much for the comment, and for the link!

By: Suresh Puntambekar.

Suresh Puntambekar. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:51:14 +0000

Dear Neha,

I liked your article. I am proud of you as a Father. The article is on more serious note and making one aware of the plight of leprosy patients. I suggest you to go through web site – http://www.anandwan.in Dr. Baba Amte has done great social work in the upliftment of leprosy patients. His children are carrying forward the mission. After going through the web site, may be some one would be interested in assisting in this noble cause. Great!! God Bless you!!

By: neha

neha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:32:38 +0000

Thank you for your comment Doug, and for the amazing work you, and your foundation are putting in towards leprosy elimination and facilitating social change.

By: Julie Schwietert

Julie Schwietert — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:23:59 +0000

Doug-

Thanks for your comment. We’re happy Neha brought the issue of leprosy to our attention; it really hasn’t received any spotlight in the Western media for many years. Thank you for the work you and your colleagues are doing to eradicate this disease.