Payal Mohta

Payal Mohta is a freelance journalist based in Mumbai. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Broadly by Vice Media UK, Unearth Women amongst other publications. You can read more of her work on www.payalmohta.com

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Leprosy in India is back, but it never really went away

February 6, 2019Health & Medicine

In 2005, India declared leprosy was no longer a public health concern. A decade after achieving this “elimination” status, India accounted for 60 percent of the global total of new leprosy cases.