{"id":42,"date":"2023-05-09T06:54:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malefiatechnologies.com\/leprosy\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:54:39","slug":"leprosy-and-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tlmethiopia.org\/index.php\/leprosy-and-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprosy and ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"42\" class=\"elementor elementor-42\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-390e63a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"390e63a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ce8457 e-con-full animated-slow e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9ce8457\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;animation_delay&quot;:100}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94c9386 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"94c9386\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">leprosy and Ethiopia<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fcd8ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fcd8ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For many years TLM has been providing funding to the All African Leprosy Tuberculosis Rehabilitation and Research Training Centre (ALERT), a referral hospital for leprosy and an international training and research centre in the capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ae37c7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1ae37c7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eef9d55 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eef9d55\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20a945a animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"20a945a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">leprosy and Ethiopia<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b60f8a animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9b60f8a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:100}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, Ethiopia is one of the 22 Leprosy high burden countries (HBCs),<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2018\/19, 3426 all leprosy cases were notified to the national program, of <\/span>which 96.2% were newly diagnosed.<\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burden of Leprosy varies significantly by region, ranging from 2.4 per 10,000 in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gambella to as low as 0.1 per 10,000 population in Somali region<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e5930c e-con-full elementor-hidden-mobile animated-slow e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-parent\" 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data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20f1a48 animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20f1a48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:100}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leprosy has been prevalent in Ethiopia for centuries. Ethiopian Christians were <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">well aware of Biblical references to the disease, our literature also contains many <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legends of miraculous cures. We adopted a much more tolerant attitude to the disease than was common in the West.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Maybe as a result of this ,People who had the sickness were kept apart from the general public but were nevertheless allowed to scrounge for money at court and at churches and to go with the soldiers on missions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopians seem traditionally to have been largely unaware that leprosy was contagious; it was\u00a0 regarded\u00a0 as an inherited complaint. In addition to prayer and amulets, we also used foreign medications, primarily from the Arabs and Europeans, for internal and exterior application as well as\u00a0 using thermal pools and medically infused steam baths.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94c3d6d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"94c3d6d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67cadf2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"67cadf2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65657b2 animated-slow e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-invisible e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"65657b2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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