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Unraveling albinism

Dr Prabha Choksey during the interview at her Aga Khan University hospital clinic in Nairobi. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

In many African communities, albinism is viewed as a curse especially when the child is born to parents who do not have physical symptoms of the condition.

It is, however, an inherited genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment formed in the skin, hair and/or eyes. It occurs in all racial and ethnic groups throughout the world.

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