Leprosy and the burden women face

An article published in Forbes last week in time for International Women’s Day looked at this ancient bacterialdisease from a very different angle–the disproportionate burden the disfiguring disease, leprosy, has on the world’s poorest women.

Joining me on the Sunday, Mar. 15 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio show, author of the article, Leprosy Isn’t Gone — And Women Bear The Burden, Dr. Judy Stone joined me to discuss the disease and her findings concerning how an already stigmatizing illness affects women on a whole different level.