Do you, or does anyone you know speak Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Pashto, Somali or Tagalog?
If so, a group of Imperial College researchers from The National Heart and Lung Institute need your help!
Tuberculosis, otherwise known as TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by the bacteria ‘Mycobacterium tuberculosis’ which affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease.
Tuberculosis is treatable with a six-month course of antibiotics. The symptoms of active TB of the lung are coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. However, a latent TB infection causes no symptoms, since the person’s immune system acts to “wall off” the bacteria, it’s estimated that there are 2 billion people around the world with latent TB. To read more about our research on latent TB click here.
Over the past six months, our researchers have been working on translating their short animation into eight languages aimed at the general public, to help raise awareness of latent TB which has no symptoms.
If you speak Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Pashto, Somali or Tagalog they would love to hear your opinion on the animation and the translations before it’s rolled out across GP waiting rooms in the UK.
You can help by joining us for dinner and sharing your thoughts. Come along and meet our TB researchers, doctors and nurses to learn more about TB on Saturday 9th December, 3.00pm – 5.00pm at The Invention Rooms in White City. Watch the screening over dinner and share your feedback – you’ll also be given £15 + £5 for your time and travel over to us.
There are only 15 spaces availiable. If you are interested in attending, please email Ishita on: i.marwah14@imperial.ac.uk