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Forgotten but not gone: COVID-19 focus poses new risks to ‘invisible’ leprosy sufferers

Forgotten but not gone: COVID-19 focus poses new risks to ‘invisible’ leprosy sufferers

RANDY MULYANTO and BEH LIH YI FIRST it was the neighbours who started avoiding Indonesian food hawker Titi Amaliyah. Then regular customers stopped buying her traditional noodle snacks when word spread that she had been diagnosed with leprosy. Since her diagnosis last year, Amaliyah and her family have been dependent on her husband's income from odd jobs, which has dwindled due to the coronavirus pandemic. With three children, they are struggling to put food on the table. "It's a mental burden for me and it affects my family's income," said Amaliyah, 44, who is being treated for the age-old disease…
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