Former leprosy patient Tereza Alves dos Santos, 71, sits in her room in Hospital Curupaiti, part of a former leprosy colony, on June 10, 2015 in the Jacarepagua neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro ...

Picture the scene. It’s 1961 and I’m a young white boy living in a small village named Zomba in Malawi. My parents and I ...

Tahirpur is a government-appointed leprosy colony on the outskirts of north Delhi and is thought to be India’s largest out of more than 800 colonies in the country.

"When I first came over here, the church bell was tolling every day, every day for weeks," he said. Harada lives with his wife of 48 years, who was also a leprosy patient, and spends his days ...

South Sudan has shut down a leper colony outside Juba, long a refuge for the sick and vulnerable who are now finding themselves squeezed out of a booming capital in the world's newest country.

In ancient times, no one really knew who was susceptible to leprosy or how it was spread. Which is why leper colonies were formed. It was a way to quarantine people and keep the disease under control.

Residents of the leper colony in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo and Okobaba Destitute Home, Ebute Metta, Lagos State, are trapped in a cycle of poverty, illness, and neglect. Without access to ...

China has pledged to improve living conditions for the 20,000 leprosy sufferers living in its 600 state-run colonies. The country will consolidate the residents in 100 dedicated areas to offer ...

Former leper colony buildings on Spinalonga (Kalydon) Island. Picture: Alamy Spinalonga was home to nearly 400 people at the peak of the disease, and was one of the last active leper colonies in ...