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Taking Part in Webinar on “Hansen’s Disease as Human Rights Issue” (1) [2021/10/13]
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Joining the second webinar of the "Don’t forget leprosy” campaign marking the 20th anniversary of my appointment as a leprosy elimination ambassador. The webinar was held on September 29, 2021.


I was pleased to participate in a webinar on the theme of “Hansen’s Disease/Leprosy as a Human Rights Issue” in my capacity as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and chairman of The Nippon Foundation.

The event was the second in a series of six webinars as part of a 10-month awareness campaign called “Don’t forget leprosy” to help ensure that leprosy is not forgotten amid the coronavirus pandemic. The campaign marks the 20th anniversary of my appointment as a leprosy elimination ambassador.

The webinar series is organized by the Sasakawa Health Foundation (SHF) and for the second webinar SHF received the collaboration of the Movement for the Reintegration of People Affected by Hansen’s Disease (MORHAN) of Brazil.

The webinar started off with a talk session in which I had the great honor to speak with Ms. Julia Gama, Miss Universe Brazil 2020, and Ms. Caroline Teixeira, Miss World Brazil 2021.

Ms. Gama has worked as a volunteer at MORHAN for the last seven years, helping persons affected by Hansen’s disease and their families.

She said that through her activities she now considers Hansen’s disease not only a medical but also a human rights issue, citing examples of people who continue to face discrimination and whose marriages have ended in divorce or who have been ostracized by their families and communities because of the disease.

To try to overcome such problems, Ms. Gama is reaching out to as many people as possible by posting about her activities with MORHAN on Instagram. She accompanies these posts with short messages that Hansen’s disease is curable and that stigma and discrimination have no place.

Next up was Ms. Teixeira, who said: “It was a great honor to be chosen Miss World Brazil and thus become an ambassador of the fight against Hansen’s disease.”

She said she wants to serve as a bridge between persons affected by Hansen’s disease and ordinary people, expressing her intent to make full use of an intercollegiate social networking service in the country.

In the coming days, she will be part of a MORHAN delegation visiting several cities in the north of the country, including those deep in the Amazon, to sensitize local governments to act in defense of the rights of persons affected by Hansen’s disease. “We will certainly unite many voices so that Hansen’s disease is not forgotten,” Ms. Teixeira said.

In response, I expressed my deep appreciation to Julia and Caroline−two ladies who are beautiful, popular and socially influential−for taking up Hansen’s disease both as a human rights issue as well as a medical issue and said, “We’ve got wonderful partners in our fight.”

I also saluted them for their active use of smartphones and social media such as Twitter and Facebook to disseminate information on the disease, and asked them to encourage persons affected by Hansen’s disease to make their voices heard with a view to correcting misinformation about the disease.

(To be continued)


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I had the great privilege to join a talk session with Miss Universe Brazil Julia Gama and Miss World Brazil Caroline Teixeira in a webinar that forms part of the "Don’t forget leprosy” campaign on September 29, 2021.


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Ms. Julia Gama, Miss Universe Brazil 2020.


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Ms. Caroline Teixeira, Miss World Brazil 2021.
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