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Leprosy

Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms, legs, and skin areas around the body. This disease has been around since ancient times, often surrounded by terrifying and negative stigmas. However, leprosy is actually not that contagious. You can catch it only if you come into close and repeated contact with nose and mouth droplets from someone with untreated leprosy. Children are more likely to get leprosy than adults. Today, about 180,000 people worldwide are infected with leprosy, according to the World Health Organization, most of them in Africa and Asia. About 100 people are diagnosed with leprosy in the U.S. every year, mostly in the South, California, Hawaii, and some U.S. territories. Leprosy is caused by a slow-growing type of bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease. Leprosy primarily affects the skin and the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, called the periphe...

Malnutrition

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Malnutrition occurs when the body doesn't get enough nutrients. Causes include a poor diet, digestive conditions or another disease. Malnutrition is global challenge specifically in low income and middle income countries. More than ten million children under five years of age die annually worldwide due to this reason. It's a very common problem nowadays. Children's nowadays eat lots of junk food due to which they don't get enough nutrition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 462 million people worldwide are malnourished, and stunted development due to poor diet affects 159 million children globally. Malnutrition during childhood can lead not only to long-term health problems but also to educational challenges and limited work opportunities in their future. When a person is malnourished then they faces so many problems like lack of interest in food and drink, tiredness, irritability, depression etc. Sometimes they face difficulty in breathing, someti...

Social entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship is the process of designing or creating a small business on a small platform. In order to this the social entrepreneurship means the business which addresses a social or environmental problems in an innovative way. The person who think to become a social entrepreneur must have proper knowledge related to social and environmental issues. While a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur also measures positive returns to society. Social entrepreneur creates  and introduce new ideas which sometimes help to tackle global issues such as improvements in education, climate change etc. Nowadays Social entrepreneurship is the new business model because it keeps the person motivated and help them to create their own business. As today’s young generation are so concerned with making a positive impact on the world and with making money so this enterprises help them to create new formula for success. If the person has prop...