Discriminatory laws

Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted with certain disabilities, including leprosy, is prohibited.

Persons affected by leprosy, and contacts, who fail to submit to necessary examinations will be fined (up to 100 USD) or imprisoned (up to 180 days) or both.

All known contacts with a person afflicted with Hansen’s disease, including all family connections, by blood or marriage and all persons known to have Hansen’s disease, resident in the Virgin Islands, shall submit to examinations by the Commissioner of Health […]

If one of the parties has leprosy, obstruction of genital canals, or insanity before or during the marriage, the spouse could ask for the marriage’s rescission.

The regulatory authority of midwives having the discretion to prohibit registered midwives suffering from any such scheduled infectious disease from attending women in childbirth.

Medical certificate required for a nurse to certify that she is not suffering from any such disease (as part of her application to register)

Persons affected by communicable diseases, including leprosy, are denied access to private (Cap. 123CA) and public (Cap. 132BR) swimming pools.

Persons affected by communicable diseases, including leprosy, are denied access to commercial bathhouses.

Leprosy is expressly defined as a “Scheduled Infectious Disease” in HK’s main public health legislation. This definition includes diseases such as COVID-19, Anthrax, Chickenpox and Cholera.

Sections 3309-3321; 3328; and 3333 allow for several forms of discrimination on the basis of leprosy. These include requirement to isolate; police enforcement of isolation; destruction of property; closure of schools; specific disposal of corpses; restrictions to enter country.   […]

Compulsory segregation of people affected by leprosy (lists leprosy as a First Schedule disease).

Persons who have reason to believe they are infected with or affected by leprosy must not enter or remain at an establishment from which meat for human consumption is dispatched; a holder of a licence permitting the dispatch of meat […]

Requirement of persons with leprosy to provide a health undertaking in order to obtain visa; undertaking requirements include reporting to the health clinic to which they are referred, placing themselves under the health clinic’s professional supervision, and undergoing any required […]

People affected by leprosy are inadmissible

People affected by leprosy are not eligible for visas

People affected by leprosy are not allowed to enter the country and any person diagnosed with leprosy is deported.

Excludes people diagnosed with leprosy from entering and taking up residency in the Kingdom

Excludes people diagnosed with leprosy from obtaining work permits. If an applicant is diagnosed with leprosy with no severe active/complications, a work permit will be granted along with treatment. If severe active/complications are found, work permit is denied and treatment […]

Based on the Regulations Governing Management of the Health Examination of Employed Aliens, No visa, employment permit or extension of employment permit shall be issued to any individual failing in any one item of the health examination.

A cabinet paper has been handed over to the Ministry of Health and is currently being reviewed by the legal department of the Ministry of health prior to submission.

Persons suffering from leprosy are not allowed to travel by railway

People affected by leprosy may be detained and isolated in hospitals or other places

If a detained person appears to the officer-in-charge to be a leper, the officer-in-charge may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any Government hospital, there to be kept and treated until cured of his leprosy.

Where a prisoner appears to be suffering from leprosy, the Minister may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services.

In 1976, Law 65 -128 about leprosy villages replaced law 76-03 which re-designated leprosy villages across Senegal to “villages of social rehabilitation”. However, they are still stigmatised and not well integrated into local communities and villages.

Segregation and isolation of persons affected by leprosy.

Leprosy is classified as Class A disease (Dangerous or contagious), people affected by leprosy are denied immigration visa – Law under review

Forced segregation and isolation of leprosy patients

No Person who is suffering from leprosy, tuberculosis, polio or such other contagious diseases, shall handle, carry or process fish or work in a fish processing and packing plant or establishment

Women are entitled to divorce their husbands if “he has been insane for a period of two years or is suffering from leprosy or a virulent venereal disease”

“If the search for the Hansen bacillus is positive, the child will be temporarily evicted from the school for a period of one year”

According to Part 3, Family Law, Article 1, Marriage Law, Code 71, 2 (c), it is against the law to marry (by deceit) or assist to marry off (by deceit) people with hearing/speaking disability, blind and leprosy affected. Law under […]

People affected by leprosy are not allowed to enter the country.

Municipal Corporation is allowed to establish segregated ‘asylums’ for persons affected by leprosy to whom ‘pauper lepers’ can be sent.

High Commissioner of the region or the District of Bamako has the right to order the hospitalisation of people diagnosed with leprosy.

Compulsory notification and isolation of leprosy patients

Compulsory detention of leprosy patients

Prohibition on employment of persons suffering from leprosy with the prescription of a punishment for contravention. Active act, under challenge in the PIL at the SC of India

Prohibition on persons suffering from leprosy to enter auction houses leading to segregation and disqualification from getting a lease to a person suffering from leprosy especially where the person is directly handling liquor. Active rule, under challenge in the PIL […]