BOP 2007 > Still Photography Winners > Serial Portrait Package
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Manaus, Brazil, Oct 19th 2005 :: Braulino Alves de Lima, 63 years old, confined at the Leprosarium of Antonio Aleixo in 1954, by the age of 11 ::
BRIEF CONTEXTUALIZATION ::
By the end of 2005, only nine countries in the world didn’t eliminate Leprosy as a public health problem. Among them, Brazil shows up with scary statistics: in 2004, the number of new cases in the country reached 49,000; in the same period, the whole Africa registered 47,000 new cases and the Americas registered 52,000 - more than 90% of new cases in the continent appear in Brazilian lands. In the last century, the treatment for the disease in Brazil comprehended the patient’s full isolation in leprosariums. These people were caught from their homes and families and trapped into small communities, usually forever. From 1976 on, due to changes in Brazilian public health policies, the colonies were partially or fully deactivated and their patients were abandoned without any policy for social reintegration. Without a place to go, they remain around these archaic structures until now, dying one by one slow and silently ::
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