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Compassionate exile / producted by Bob Madey and Larry Thomas and directed by Bob Madey.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--Patients--Fiji--Makogai.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--Fiji--Makogai--History.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (60 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Fiji : Privately Published, 1999.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Interviews with former patients of the leprosarium in Makogai, Fiji. Now in their sixties they recount the effects of the disease, the reaction of society to them, the treatment, life on the island. Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains a public health problem in 55 countries (600,000 new cases are reported annually). With the aid of multi-drug therapy (MDT) the disease was eliminated from Fiji by 1993. The World Health Organisation had aims to eliminate the disease worldwide by 2000.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2014).
- Recorded Makogai, Fiji 0000.
- OCLC:
- 891667582
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