Fighting the stigma of albinism
People with albinism face major health problems, including skin cancer, involuntary eye movements, and poor eyesight. According to a new study in the journal Anthropology & Medicine, many of them also suffer severe discrimination and social stigmatization. To understand just what they go through, Giorgio Brocco of the Freie Universität Berlin spoke with several people with albinism in Tanzania, a country with a much higher than average prevalence. Worldwide the condition affects roughly 1 in 20,000 people, but in Tanzania,