Interviews
“Special Interview”
Valdenora da Cruz Rodrigues
Movement of Reintegration of Persons Afflicted by Hansen’s disease (MORHAN)
Brazil
Yohei Sasakawa had an interview with Ms. Valdenora Rodriguez, a member of MORHAN (Reintegration of People Affected by Leprosy).
From 1926 to 1976, Brazil imposed a policy of segregating children from their parents affected by leprosy in order to prevent household transmission. Today, there is a movement to reunite the segregated parents and children through DNA analysis, but there are not many successful stories.
Ms. Rodriguez is one person who has suffered under this policy of parent-child segregation. She has had to overcome many hardships to this day. Now she is finally able to have and raise her own child that she had so longed for.
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