diseases; a main theme when discussing the stigmas attached to leprosy colonies.[citation needed] In 1904 a leper colony was founded in the Philippines on a...

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 Culion leper colony is a former leprosarium located on Culion, an island in the Palawan province of the Philippines. It was established by the U.S...

in the East, it was the Church who took care of the lepers due to the still persisting moral stigma and who ran the leprosaria. Although the leprosaria...

became a refuge for Muslim families fearing persecution, and finally a leper colony in the early 20th century. It has been uninhabited since 1962; though...

the northern side of Molokai, followed by Kalaupapa as the sites of a leper colony that operated from 1866 to 1969. Because Kalaupapa had a better climate...

Library of Medicine. Kalaupapa National Historical Park Father Damien Leper colony stigma History of leprosy Pandemic It is now believed that leprosy is mainly...

supported the segregation of leper patients. The police arrested Matsuo Fujimoto and he was detained at a leper colony, Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium, in...

The lepers' plot was an alleged conspiracy of French lepers in 1321 to spread their disease by contaminating water supplies, including well water, with...

as lepers. In the 21st century, this term is falling into disuse as a result of the diminishing number of leprosy patients. Because of the stigma to patients...

tried to banish all lepers to the outskirt of the colony. Three years later, after much objection from citizens of the colony and a devastating hurricane...

caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, Father Damien contracted leprosy. He continued with his work despite...

ethnographer, sociologist and writer, known for his work on the study of the leper colony of Spinalonga in Greece. Spinalonga is a small barren island located...

associated with poverty and stigma remains a significant barrier to effective treatment. Health in China Leprosy Leper colony WHO | Leprosy Factsheet Chen...

unusual adoption of eight children born to patients in a so-called "leper colony" of South Korea by a number of American families. One of the parents...

entries of the 2019 Metro Manila Film Festival. Culion Culion leper colony Leprosy Leprosy stigma Garcia, Ma. Angelica (October 16, 2019). "MMFF 2019: the...

reduce leprosy and the stigma of leprosy in Brazil. This organization was initially created to ensure the rights of patients from leper colonies due to their...

Service. The leper colony's housing has had preservation works, and been 3D digitally mapped. After the island was decommissioned as a leper colony, it was...

mentioned his father by name, possibly to shield him from the stigma of being related to a leper. In the early 1850s, while working as a port physician in...

Opala focused much of her nursing career on Peel Island's Lazaret (Leper colony or Leprosarium) caring for patients with Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)....

ISBN 978-0-471-89979-2. Tayman J (2006). The Colony. Simon and Schuster. p. 252. ISBN 0-471-89979-8. "Hope for Lepers". Time Magazine. 30 December 1946. Retrieved...

The Island, which features the island of Spinalonga, Greece's former leper colony. Hislop became an ambassador for Lepra in 2013 and has been to India...

Lives of Leprosy Patients in Kashmir". The Wire. "Indian lepers whose dreams are shattered by stigma". 30 January 2017. Robbins G.; et al. (2009). "Ancient...

National Historical Park in Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi, the site of a former leper colony; Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park in Kailua-Kona on Hawaiʻi...

in a leper colony, and establishing a blackfoot disease [zh] clinic. Lillian Dickson's medical missionary work started with her focus on the leper patients...

to shield him from the stigma of being related to a leper. In December 1878, Hutchison was arrested for being a suspected leper and detained at Honolulu's...

President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and for Albert Schweitzer in his isolated leper colony in Lamberéné. She began passing for white in 1959, at first so she could...

Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars. Simon and Schuster. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-59143-216-6. Archived from...

Government Printing Office. 1927. p. 76. Arcilla, Jose S. (2009). "The Culion Leper Colony, 1900s-1970s". Philippine Studies. 57 (2): 307–326. JSTOR 42634012. Anderson...

children of lepers, securing their education along with other children. He established orphanages where they would not be associated with the stigma of leprosy...