World Leprosy Day 2024: Date, history, significance
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World Leprosy Day 2024: Date, history, significance

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World Leprosy Day 2024: Leprosy is a disease that affects skin and nerves. World Leprosy Day 2024: Date, history, significance Every year, World Leprosy Day is celebrated to create awareness about this disease and explore the treatment options. History: In 1954, French Journalist Raoul Follereau established World Leprosy Day to be celebrated to campaign to create awareness about this disease and explore the treatment options available that can provide the patients with a better life. "The aim of observing the World Leprosy Day is to create awareness against the stigma attached to the disease, by making the general community aware that it is a disease spread by a type of bacteria and it can be easily cured," wrote World Health Organisation on their official website.

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