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Game of Thrones character revealed to have leprosy

House of the Dragon star, Paddy Considine, has confirmed his character's disease.

The actor recently appeared on Entertainment Weekly's West of Westeros podcast and confirmed his character's affliction. His disease is, in fact, leprosy, causing the lesions that increase on the King.

BBC donates £1.4m of sales from Princess Diana Panorama interview to charities linked to her

The BBC has donated £1.42m of sales made from the 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana to charities connected to her.

The broadcaster said the amount will be shared equally between seven charities linked to the Princess of Wales, including The Leprosy Mission.

Togo achieves ‘major feat’ of eliminating four neglected tropical diseases

Togo has been praised by the World Health Organization for becoming the first country in the world to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases.

The west African country has eliminated Guinea worm, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness and trachoma in just 11 years.

Climate change is a life or death situation for the world's most vulnerable

"We all shoulder the responsibility for caring for our common home, for both future generations and the world's poorest today. While climate change may distress me here in the UK, it is a life or death situation for the world's most vulnerable, the cruel irony being that the people suffering the most barely have a carbon footprint themselves."

Leprosy in the News

Deep Concern Over New WHO Figures Showing Low Numbers Of New Leprosy Cases

New World Health Organisation figures reveal the number of people treated for leprosy is 30% down since the start of the Covid pandemic.

Inside Niger community where Nigerians dump family members afflicted with leprosy

Stigmatised because they were afflicted with leprosy, residents of a community in Kampani part of Minna, Niger State capital, have been abandoned by family members and friends who brought them in from different parts of the country. Now they are afraid of venturing out of the community they know into the uncertain world.