Rachel Maddow said that Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to make America like Florida, but part of the problem in Florida is Leprosy. Maddow said: The strongest wind in his sails for the purpose of motivating the conservative Republican base has been his claim that he would make America more like …
Read More »Global Community Celebrates Medical Innovations and Milestones Since Defining Leprosy Discovery 150 Years Ago
Yohei Sasakawa, WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, speaks at the two-day Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease. The conference coincided with the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Mycobacterium leprae by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Credit: Thor Brødreskift/Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Thursday, June 22, …
Read More »Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy
Yohei Sasakawa chronicles his campaign to rid the world of leprosy in his biography Making the Impossible Possible. Credit: Hurst Publishers by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, June 19, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jun 19 (IPS) – In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded. …
Read More »Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On New Year’s Day in 1922, a scientific paper in an obscure medical journal described a drug that would help revolutionize the treatment of leprosy in Hawaii …
Read More »Pope, Sasakawa in Global Appeal for a Leprosy Free World
Pope Francis and Yohei Sasakawa, Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination led a global appeal to end leprosy and the stigmatization of those impacted. The pope’s statement was read to the second international symposium on Hansen’s Disease in Rome hosted by the Holy See, Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative, the French …
Read More »Global Community Urged Not to Relent in Final Push to Eliminate Leprosy
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, standing with Yohei Sasakawa, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2022. Sasakawa was honored at the Global Health Leaders Awards. by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, June 07, 2022 Inter Press Service …
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