A theater undertaking that takes well being schooling to Malawi is getting some renewed consideration on the SEB Centenary Convention 2023 in Scotland, the place Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) members discovered in regards to the drama-based methods used to speak the dangers of African sleeping illness in Rumphi and Nkhotakota.
The sleeping illness, formally often known as African Trypanosomiasis, is attributable to a parasitic an infection transmitted by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Fever, complications and fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, a rash, and aching muscle tissues and joints are frequent signs. If left untreated, the sickness can show deadly inside weeks to months.
There is no such thing as a vaccine, however therapy is on the market. It requires follow-up monitoring for an extended time period (two years, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention in the US), and schooling in regards to the illness is vital. So is limiting the unfold of African sleeping illness, with world efforts proving profitable in lowering the variety of circumstances throughout the final 20 years.
For Dr. Nicola Veitch and different consultants on the College of Glasgow, the revolutionary method is a public well being schooling success in Malawi. The Parasite Road Science program depends on music, costumes, video games and extra to attach with village audiences and share life-saving info. The initiative additionally makes use of radio programming for neighborhood outreach.
College companions embody Kamuzu College of Well being Sciences and Malawi VOICES, in addition to the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology and theater and circus professionals from the Surge group in Scotland.
The SEB convention, with its concentrate on revolutionary approaches to science, wrapped up on Friday.
Picture: Annette Mcleod Lab/College of Glasgow
