Despite leprosy being curable and no longer a public health issue across the world for some decades now, stigma surrounding the disease, and even the Philippine island that exclusively hosted lepers at one time, lingers to this day.Arturo Cunanan Jr., chief of the Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital on Culion, southwest of the main island of Luzon, laments that the stigma of the disease remains prevalent in many countries including the Philippines.He complains as well about the prejudice against his home island and its people stemming from the utilization of Culion as a leper colony from…READ FULL ARTICLE
