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People with leprosy are also at a higher risk for problems with their mental well-being. [95] The social stigma may contribute to problems obtaining employment, financial difficulties, and social isolation. [95] Efforts to reduce discrimination and reduce the stigma surrounding leprosy may help improve outcomes for people with leprosy. [96]
The Leprosy Mission international advocates for the end of the use of the term leper to describe a person with leprosy. The term has negative connotations for sufferers and, because of many historical references, has long been used to identify someone as "unclean" in a ritual sense, or who should not be touched or associated with.
There has, historically, been fear around leprosy and people with the disease have suffered stigma, isolation and social exclusion.Expulsion of individuals infected with leprosy to quarantined areas or special institutions has been the general protocol since ancient times and was the recommended course of action by the Leprosy Conference of Berlin 1897.
Spinalonga on Crete, Greece, one of the last leprosy colonies in Europe, closed in 1957. A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.
The Leprosy Mission were heartened to find that the separated children did not develop the disease. [55] In 1881, around 120,000 leprosy patients were documented in India. The central government passed the Lepers Act of 1898, which provided legal provision for forcible confinement of people with leprosy in India, but the Act was not enforced ...
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
A person whose condition is in complete remission may be considered cured or recovered. Relapse is a term to describe returning symptoms of the disease after a period of remission. In cancer-treatment, doctors usually avoid the term "cured" and instead prefer the term " no evidence of disease " ( NED ) to refer to a complete remission of cancer ...
Leprosy currently affects approximately a quarter of a million people throughout the world, with the majority of these cases being reported from India. [1]India is a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ().