Should India fight leprosy with an antibiotic that might lead to TB drug resistance?

Tabassum Barnagarwala

· Dec 28, 2022 · 06:30 am

Your Morning Fix: With over half the world’s annual new cases, is leprosy returning to India?

Scroll Staff

· Jan 30, 2019 · 06:30 am

Lok Sabha passes bill to remove leprosy as ground for divorce

Scroll Staff

· Jan 07, 2019 · 09:51 pm

Is leprosy making a comeback in India? Government and health experts differ

Ramesh Menon, Indiaspend.com

· Jan 04, 2019 · 10:30 am

Google doodle marks social activist Baba Amte’s 104th birthday

Scroll Staff

· Dec 26, 2018 · 08:39 am

New report highlights the neglect of the health of India’s tribal communities

Ayesha Marfatia

· Nov 20, 2018 · 02:30 pm

‘No discrimination of leprosy patients’: SC issues guidelines for rehabilitation

Scroll Staff

· Sep 14, 2018 · 07:58 pm

‘No discrimination of leprosy patients’: SC issues guidelines for rehabilitation

Scroll Staff

· Sep 14, 2018 · 11:45 am

Remembering Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’: My first meeting with Dr Ruth Pfau, the angel of Manghopir

Owais Tohid

· Aug 14, 2017 · 09:30 pm

German doctor and nun Ruth Pfau, often called Pakistan’s Mother Teresa, dies at 87

Scroll Staff

· Aug 11, 2017 · 09:05 am

The government still needs to find the money to eliminate TB and kala azar

Menaka Rao Priyanka Vora

· Feb 01, 2017 · 07:42 pm

In the news: Physicians told to prescribe generic drugs and write names in caps and more

Scroll Staff

· Oct 24, 2016 · 05:30 am

Leprosy is routinely infecting the children of Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Priyanka Vora

· Oct 04, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Defying national decline, leprosy continues to haunt the Adivasis of Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Priyanka Vora

· Sep 30, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Lab notes: Making the TB vaccine better, links between obesity and breast cancer and more

Scroll Staff

· Sep 02, 2016 · 05:45 am

In the news: A vaccine for leprosy, doctors' strike in Odisha

Scroll Staff

· Aug 22, 2016 · 07:30 am

Neglected by their families, leprosy patients in Sri Lanka have built new lives

Ross Velton, Mosaic.com

· Aug 19, 2016 · 05:30 am

The world won’t be free of leprosy unless India delivers

Charu Bahri, IndiaSpend.com

· May 30, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Why India must amend laws that discriminate against persons suffering from leprosy

Yashaswini Mittal

· May 10, 2016 · 05:30 pm