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Survey in Japan Reveals Discrimination Against Hansen’s Disease Patients Persists
A survey in Japan found that 35% of respondents said that they themselves felt some sense of prejudice or discrimination against people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy). The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare recently conducted the first nationwide …