PU Students Launch Campaign to Raise Endometriosis Awareness

By: Women Entrepreneurs Review Team | Thursday, 20 August 2026

A team of five Pre-University students from second year at St. Aloysius PU College has initiated an awareness campaign about endometriosis, a major women’s health issue that remains largely unrecognized throughout the world.

Melisa Jessica Aranha, Diya Melita Pinto, Jean D’Souza, Aaditri H Bekal and Cera Oreva Furtado have collectively launched a campaign which hopes to generate increased awareness about the disease and the significance of timely medical treatment. The main focus of the campaign is on helping women understand the signs of endometriosis and seek timely medical help.

Key Highlights:

• Female students launch campaign to raise awareness about endometriosis
• Survey reveals major gaps with 42.4% unaware & 77.6% eager to learn more
• Students also develop nutrition guide to support symptom management

A crucial element of the assignment was a survey design that helped to assess awareness of individuals and determine future course of women’ health education, if necessary.

Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease which arises due to growth of cells resembling the uterine lining outside the uterus. It is estimated that more than 190 million women are affected by endometriosis, therefore making it as a major women’ health problem. Endometriosis may also lead to infertility, which accounts for about 30 percent to 50 percent of the patients.

However, diagnosing endometriosis is quite a complicated and lengthy procedure. As mentioned by the students, patients of endometriosis might experience delays in their diagnosis ranging from seven to 12 years. This highlights the gap that persists between the symptoms and the actual diagnosis. One of the major challenges in the diagnosis of endometriosis is that there is no reliable and disease specific biomarker.

Almost half, 42.4%, of the respondents stated that they had never even heard of this disease. An almost equal percentage, 43.9%, answered that they did not know anything about it before participating in this survey. However, despite their ignorance, the responses to this campaign were quite positive. 77.6% of the people who participated in the survey were willing to find out more about endometriosis.

This project also had a bearing on nutrition awareness where the students undertook a review related to research and gathered information from recognized medical establishments in order to create a nutritional guideline for women who suffer from endometriosis or need to gather information about it. The guide is centred on diet and includes information which could help make informed decisions regarding one’s health condition. What is more important, the group did not consider nutrition an independent remedy for the disease in question but only one part of treatment.

Dr Kavita Dikshit, a gynaecologist, pointed out that the main issue with endometriosis is the morbidity that it brings about rather than any relation to mortality. She added that the problem could cause intense pain and suffering, which can interrupt their normal duties and lower their quality of life. Endometriosis is a condition that causes greater morbidity than mortality. It can result in severe pain, discomfort and disturbances in a woman’s daily life,” said Dr Kavita.