VIDEO – A television spot, broadcast in April, highlights the importance of breaking the taboo surrounding endometriosis. It affects 10% of women.
This is a first in France. For a week, three television channels will broadcast an information spot on endometriosis. This chronic gynecological disease affects nearly one in ten women. But they still have to wait too long before receiving an appropriate diagnosis. Raising awareness is precisely the objective of this short video, produced by the EndoFrance association.
Dressed in a yellow shirt, the woman walks through a black and white world. The choice of color is not trivial: it is the emblem of patients and militant associations. To represent them, Laëtitia Milot. Made famous by the soap opera More beautiful life, the actress also suffers from endometriosis.
End the taboo
In this information spot, the actress explains the symptoms and the consequences and a growing group of women join her. The staging is intelligent and subtle: if the patients can believe they are alone, they are in fact very numerous in France. “Together, let’s bring this disease out of the shadows,” she concludes.
Ending the taboo on endometriosis is the goal. It seems well advanced: at the end of March, Info Endometriosis signed an agreement with the ministers of Women’s Rights and Health, Laurence Rossignol and Marisol Touraine. The text urges them to act more firmly for the information of women and the training of health professionals.
Because the problems are multiple around endometriosis: lack of knowledge, imprecise examinations, diagnoses too late… So many delays which affect the physical and mental health of patients. Thus, 40% of women who fail to conceive have the disease. By dint of marches and activism, however, the situation began to improve.
Find the program L’Invité santé by Pourquoidocteur
with Dr Erick Petit (Saint-Joseph Hospital Group)
broadcast on March 9, 2017
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