Lepers still face stigma in Ethiopia

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right leg to leprosy – a disease that still afflicts thousands in Ethiopia – he also lost his family. “My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused to talk to me,” says Tilahun, a 46-year-old farmer in Oromia region, Ethiopia’s most populous region. He contracted leprosy about a decade ago. Ethiopia, which is...