Sohail University marks World Leprosy Day to raise public awareness of Leprosy or Hansen's Disease. Leprosy was renamed Hansen’s disease after Norwegian scientist Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who in 1873 discovered the slow-growing bacterium now known as Mycobacterium leprae as the cause of the illness. Together, we can put a stop to prejudice and disgrace against people with Hansen’s disease that can be restored with antibiotics.