Foreigners with HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and leprosy will be allowed into China for the first time. From CNN: State-run news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday that China’s State Council decided to repeal the...
A group of journalism students at Shantou University have put together a website of their stories profiling the daily lives of Shantou residents, from a hard laborer to an artist to a leprosy patient. From the latter story:...
Before the founding of the People’s Republic, people with leprosy were killed to prevent them from spreading the disease to others. In the 1950s, this disease could be cured and in the 1980s, medicines were handed out to leprosy patients for free. Even though the disease can be cured, the lasting effects, and discrimination, still […]
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