Patients help other patients: Qualitative study on a longstanding community cooperative to tackle leprosy in India.

• Main Authors: Seong Hye Jung (Author), Hee Won Han (Author), Hyeonseok Koh (Author), Soo-Young Yu (Author), Nobutoshi Nawa (Author), Ayako Morita (Author), Ken Ing Cherng Ong (Author), Masamine Jimba (Author), Juhwan Oh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Although leprosy is portrayed as a disappearing disease, leprosy affected persons in India are still suffering massively. Even further, nearly 60% of the world's newly detected cases are appearing from India alone. The problem has exacerbated due to the drastic decrease of global fun...