Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The disease is mainly classified as paucibacillary (PB) or multibacillary (MB) leprosy, depending on the number of skin lesions and nerve involvement. PB leprosy is a milder form of the disease, characterized by few (i.e., up to five) hypopigmented, pale and reddish, hypo- or anesthetic skin lesions, which may at times be infiltrated. MB leprosy is associated with multiple (i.e., more than five) skin lesions that manifest as nodules, plaques, or diffuse skin infiltration (World Health Organization. According to the Ridley and Jopling classification (1966), leprosy can be divided into five groups: tuberculoid leprosy (TT), borderline tuberculoid leprosy (BT), mid-borderline leprosy (BB), borderline lepromatous leprosy (BL), and lepromatous leprosy (LL). Later, the leprosy was reclassified with the addition of pure neuritic leprosy and indeterminate leprosy. TT, BT, and indeterminate leprosy are considered PB leprosy, and BB, BL and LL Hansen’s are classified as MB leposy. Pure neuritic leprosy can fall on both spectrums depending on the number of nerves involved and the bacillary load.Indeterminate leprosy presents clinically as a vague hypopigmented patch with some degree of loss in tactile and thermal sensation that shows the presence of bacilli or perneural infitartion in histopathology. This is usually the first sign of leprosy in 20% to 80% of patients (Cardama, 1980). TT presents with well-defined anesthetic plaque with raised and clear-cut edges that slope inward. The surface looks dry with hair loss and sweating, and the feeder nerve may thicken. BT presents with an anesthetic patch with regular-to-irregular margins that have a pseudopodial extension and satellite lesions in the vicinity of patch. Several of the peripheral nerves are likely to be enlarged in an asymmetrical pattern, with hair loss and sweating on the patches.BB is an unstable form of the disease that can present with features of both tuberculoid and lepromatous pole. The characteristic skin lesions are annular lesions with a well-defined, punched-out inner edge and an ill-defined outer-sloping edge that give the appearance of Swiss cheese. Nerve damage is variable and depends on whether the patient is upgrading from lepromatous pole or downgrading from tuberculoid pole. In BL, there are slightly infiltrated, round-to-oval macules of 2 to 3 cm in diameter that are distributed in an asymmetrical pattern with areas of apparently normal skin between macules. With the progression of disease papules, nodules and plaques may develop with slope-like margins merging into the surrounding skin. Peripheral nerve involvement is asymmetrical; however, the damage is less compared with BT and TT.LL presents as macules, nodules, papules, and diffuse and infiltrated forms. Macules in LL are smaller compared with BL, with indistinct edges, shiny surfaces, and a symmetrical distribution. Diffuse LL has shiny and thickened skin that is better felt with touch by pinching the skin with fingers. Earlobes are shiny and thickened. The nodular form is the advanced stage of LL with nodules over the ear lobes, face, trunk, joints, and extremities. Symptoms also include madarosis, accentuation of skin folds, and bony deformities like nasal depression giving rise to leonine facies. Nerve trunks are rarely involved; instead, dermal twigs give rise to symmetrical loss of sensation initially over the extensors of the extremities in a glove and stocking pattern. Pure neuritic leprosy also presents with a loss of sensation and the involvement of nerves that supply those areas without any skin lesions of leprosy in the present or past.Although not life threatening, leprosy causes several stigmatizing deformities and thereby has a great psychosocial impact on affected people and their families. In developing countries, most women are housewives who are neglected within the family, especially where health is concerned. Women are always the last to seek healthcare, the most common being their financial dependence on men. Hence, leprosy in women has a great impact on the health of the affected patient and her family members, children, and community as a whole.