Well-known for his position within the movie adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Mr. Karloff additionally acted in 130 films, enjoying, as he known as it, many “spine-chilling roles”.
Stepping out of these roles and into his “actual self”, Mr. Karloff labored with UN Radio in 1959 to file a function on how communities in Nigeria had been dealing with leprosy.
“In the event you nonetheless assume that leprosy, or Hansen’s illness, leaves its victims tremendously disfigured and dooms them to that situation, then it is best to have been with me within the rural clinic in Tiranka, in northern central Nigeria,” he mentioned, over the sound of drumming.
Right now, leprosy nonetheless happens in about 120 international locations, with greater than 200,000 circumstances reported annually.
It’s a preventable and curable illness in line with the World Well being Group (WHO) in its global strategy to eradicate it.
Efforts at the moment are ongoing in each area of the world.
Hearken to The Dance of New Life here, a part of UN Information’s collection highlighting epic moments throughout the UN’s previous, cultivated from the UN Audiovisual Library’s 49,400 hours of video and 18,000 hours of audio recordings.
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Leprosy prevention programmes at the moment are occurring worldwide, together with this college marketing campaign in Recife, Brazil. (file)
Tales from the UN Archive
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