The 2025 theme highlights the urgent need to prevent skin cancer in persons with albinism through awareness, screenings, and sunscreen access. The risk of skin cancer is extremely high for persons ...

Edna Cedrick holds her surviving albino son after his twin brother who had albinism was snatched from her arms in a violent struggle in 2016. Cedrick says she is haunted daily by images of the ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I ncreased funding and awareness campaigns are helping to slow the rates of violence against people with albinism in Africa, according to ...

It was a sweltering and lazy summer day some 46 years ago in my hometown of Montreal, Canada. From what I recall, the sun shone so brightly that my pigment-starved eyes squinted tightly in a futile ...

It is hard to imagine Africans would record and release an album of music with the name White African Power. But that is the title of an album released this month by the Tanzanian Albinism Collective, ...

This week on Global Notes, we talk with producer and activist Ian Brennan. His last two recording projects brought him to a maximum security prison in Zomba, Malawi to record songs by prisoners at ...

The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities is using September to highlight that people with albinism, who have a rare genetic condition affecting melanin production, face not only ...

June 13 was World Albinism Day. What does it feel like being an albino? Bisi Bamishe tells Wale Adepoju her experience. When I was a child, I grappled with what it meant to be a person with albinism.

Cuteness overload: Children from the Albinism Society of South Africa lit up the jungle gym at a wellness workshop in Putfontein on September 18, enjoying playtime and friendship. With September being ...

Albinism is a condition some people are born with, where their bodies make little or no melanin, the pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes. It happens because of changes in certain ...

Albinism is a genetic condition that affects the production of melanin, the pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes. People with albinism typically have very light skin, hair, and eyes.

Many of these challenges translate into various forms of discrimination, affecting their daily lives in significant ways. Albinism, a genetic condition characterised by a lack of melanin in the skin, ...