March 14 is a day of awareness and visibility of Endometriosis. United Nationsa chronic and disabling disease that affects approximately 10% (190 million) of women and girls of reproductive age, as well as menstruating people worldwide according to WHO data. In our country, although without precise records, it is estimated that 1,000,000 women have been diagnosed. However, by referring to statistical data and being an underdiagnosed disease, it cannot be determined which menstruating people may be suffering no diagnosis this sickness.
According to the WHO, It is a chronic disease that causes intense pain during menstruation, sexual intercourse, defecation or urination that greatly affects the lives of patients; In addition, it causes chronic pelvic pain, bloating, nausea, fatigue, and sometimes depression, anxiety, and infertility.
The lack of early detection and qualified treatment can be the cause of absolute disability. Therefore, the greatest concern is the lack of knowledge that exists about this disease within the population and among the professionals themselves. The campaign, if it hurts, it’s not normal, was promoted by the Endohermanas Argentina Civil Association, to deconstruct the mandate that educates to suffer with pain during menstruation.
The greatest concern is the lack of knowledge about this disease within the population and among the professionals themselves.
The emotional, social and labor exhaustion that these people suffer and the risk that their lives run once they cannot pay for their treatment or ignore their disease, is highly detrimental, seriously reducing their quality of life and leaving the progress of their life adrift. disease.
That’s why on March 14 will light up in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires diverse monuments yellow, the color that identifies Endometriosis throughout the world. At 6:00 p.m. the group will focus on the generic floralis from Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2301, and this date will close at 8:30 p.m. concentrating on the Obelisk which will light up in the same color. Throughout the country, different organizations will carry out acts and lighting their buildings for this purpose.
The central request is the incorporation of Endometriosis as a chronic disease to the PMO (Mandatory Medical Program) and the awareness and visibility of the disease in all educational and health scopes.
*President Assoc. Endohermanas Civiles. Self-convoked Women with Endometriosis.
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