25 JANUARY 2009 -World Leprosy Day-

[Diego Ravier]

LEPROSY IS MY PRISON:

Rich, lucky, never forgotten, socially integrated; these adjectives are not related with people suffering from leprosy. The bacterium, which induces the disease, has no mercy on who already carries the problems concerning extreme poverty. Only a small part of worlds population lives locked into a happy bubble where the poverty is not abject. In the rest of the Planet millions people are caught up into a too large physical and psychological disease because of any resources, inadequate health-care, lies and shame to state openly this disease.

The disease can be stop but it requires an early diagnosis on the prevention infection, a remarkable health-care and a screening of the people sick.

With no money leprosy sinks into obscurity but in a latent state.

Diego RAVIER