"On World Endometriosis Day, we reaffirm the Democratic Party's commitment to the battle for the full right to health, which also means increasing awareness of 'invisible' diseases, which are still often underestimated and have large gaps in terms of investment in research and prevention.

Endometriosis is a chronic disease that can be very disabling, still not sufficiently considered. Despite the prevalence (there are 3 million diagnoses, a figure that is certainly underestimated both because of the reluctance of those who fall ill to undergo specialist examinations even in the presence of severe pain, and because of inappropriate diagnoses), too often there are still stigmas and harmful clichés related to the menstrual cycle and a presumed "normality" of the pain of the same, without recognizing the symptoms of a disease that involves several risks for the people who are afflicted by it. It is crucial to continue to raise awareness and disseminate information about endometriosis, particularly within care facilities and healthcare staff, but more broadly across society. We believe it is necessary to develop a public care network with multiple specialist skills, where all professionals are able to pose the diagnostic suspicion or diagnose the pathology, and direct patients to correct treatment. On this occasion, we recall and reiterate the importance of some proposals born from the work of the Democratic Party, such as regional and national laws to protect people with endometriosis, and such as the bill proposed by some of our parliamentarians for the introduction of menstrual leave, which allows justified absence from work for people who can clinically demonstrate that they have a particularly painful period. The effects of the stigma linked to menstruation are not only social, but also economic and material: we fight for justice, so that it does not happen again to anyone not to receive adequate information about the management of their menstrual cycle, not to be able to choose freely for their body, to be the subject of taboos and stereotypes on the subject, of having to give up playing sports, going out, participating in social occasions out of shame, embarrassment or a lack of diagnosis and treatment." This was stated by Marina Sereni, head of Health in the national secretariat of the Democratic Party, Rachele Scarpa, head of the Democratic Party for young people and health, and Paola Boldrini, head of the Democratic Party for gender medicine. L'articolo Endometriosis: Pd, we reaffirm commitment to the full right to health proviene da Partito democratico.