Statements, interviews and speeches

Special Rapporteur on discrimination against persons with leprosy (Hansen’s disease)

Side event of the 15th Session of the Conference of State Parties to the CRPD, June 2022
Health campaigners call for an end to the use of the word leper, 2021
Statement for the Global Appeal, 2021
Speech at the meeting organized by the Ecuadorian Chancellor's office, December 2020
Statement at the WHO consultation, October 2020
Statement at the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network conference, October 2020
Statement at the Sasakawa Health Foundation Webinar, October 2020
Why we should stop using the word leprosy, March 2020
“The Star (NGO newsletter)” July-Dec 2019
Speech at 12th Meeting of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for NTDs, April 2019. (See the meeting report)
Interview: Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy, September 2018
Discrimination against women affected by leprosy, August 2018
Health and Human Rights Journal, June 2018
Leprosy related stigma on public speeches (article in Portuguese), July 2018
Special Rapporteur calls upon European leaders to stop using leprosy as a metaphor (article in Portuguese), July 2018
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Talking Leprosy. Alice Cruz: “A medicalized approach to leprosy is not enough”, February 2018
Interview: World Leprosy Day (Portuguese), January 2018
Ending the stigma and persistence of leprosy requires governments to step up, January 2018
Interview: ‘You Need to Reach Deep Waters’, October 2017

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