3Novices: Social Stigma Stalks India's Leprosy Patients as Disease Returns

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3Novices: Social Stigma Stalks India's Leprosy Patients as Disease Returns

In 2005, Ganga Kalshetty was just two years old when India declared itself leprosy-free, giving her family hope that she would be spared the disfiguring disease and its social stigma. But the last decade has seen a worrying resurgence of leprosy in India, which now accounts for more than half of the 200,000 new cases reported worldwide every year. Kalshetty lives in one of India's dozens of informal "leper colonies", where many of her relatives are afflicted ...