{"id":1264,"date":"2017-08-02T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:17:52","slug":"overcoming-stigma-in-lalgadh-rural-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming stigma in Lalgadh, rural Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The link between social standing and stigma elimination has long been recognised by Nepal Leprosy Trust. \u00a0A year-long collaboration between Professor Orla Muldoon (UL), Dr Sarah Jay (UL), Psychology department and Mike Winterburn (Limerick Institute of Technology) will gauge the success of this synergy. \u00a0Read more on this research project in our Summer 2017 newsletter\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NLT_Summer_Newsletter2017_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UL-survey-2017-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1266\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UL-survey-2017-small.jpg\" alt=\"Villager filling up survey form for the University of Limerick research study.\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UL-survey-2017-small.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UL-survey-2017-small-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villager filling up survey form for the University of Limerick research study. Photo; Vera \u00a9 NLT Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5710-small.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5710-small.jpeg\" alt=\"Data collection forms in transit to Limerick, Ireland\" width=\"864\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5710-small.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5710-small-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5710-small-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data collection forms in transit to Limerick, Ireland. Photo: Vera \u00a9 NLT Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link between social standing and stigma elimination has long been recognised by Nepal Leprosy Trust. \u00a0A year-long collaboration between Professor Orla Muldoon (UL), Dr Sarah Jay (UL), Psychology department and Mike Winterburn (Limerick Institute of Technology) will gauge the success of this synergy. \u00a0Read more on this research project in our Summer 2017 newsletter\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overcoming stigma in Lalgadh, rural Nepal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-program","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}