‘Tonightly’ Made A Handy Explainer For Worldwide Endometriosis Day
Tom Ballard talks about an issue that affects 600,000 Australians, but is rarely discussed.
Endometriosis is a disease which affects an appallingly large amount of people — but bizarrely, a lot of the world don’t know a huge amount about it. This is where the good folk at Tonightly With Tom Ballard come in.
In honour of Worldwide Endometriosis Day, Tonightly have put together a quick video to help explain both what Endometriosis is, why it’s such an important subject to raise awareness for, and who is currently suffering from it.
“Women have been talking about this for centuries, but you just don’t listen” says host Bridie Connell.
The statistics are fairly shocking. One in 10 people with uteruses suffer from Endometriosis , meaning they experience debilitating pain and suffering.
Over 166 million people worldwide suffer from the disease, which is the same number as people with diabetes.
“One in 10 women have endometriosis, that’s one in ten teenage girls missing classes at school because of excruciating pain, that’s one in 10 young women being forced to take time off work for treatment and operations,” says Labor politician Gai Brodtmann in the video.
The video is a handy resource that helps explain what Endometriosis sufferers are dealing with, and also what they need moving forward.
It states that the government has just invested 2.5 million dollar to endometriosis research, and while that’s a good start, it needs to be expanded upon in order to help solve such a debilitating disease which affects so many Australians.
Watch below:
Tonightly With Tom Ballard airs weeknights on ABC Comedy.