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To raise public awareness of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, an exhibition can be seen at the Toulouse Municipal health Community until May 24.
With more than 10 million people affected worldwide, including 300,000 in France, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are no longer considered rare pathologies. But these IBD (Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases) are still poorly understood and often taboo.
To alert and inform, the Afa Crohn RCH France association and the municipal health community of Toulouse are offering the exhibition “Chameleons, Insights into Invisible Diseases” from May 6 to 24 (1). Photographer Gabriel Le Glaunec produced a series of portraits of people suffering from chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. “When I was fourteen, after a year of medical wandering, I discovered that I suffered from chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Too often these diseases are not considered a real disability. Yet all these affected people suffer like me of an invisible illness. By projecting an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of my stomach onto my models, I make these illnesses visible,” explains the photographer.
“A few days before World IBD Day, this exhibition resonates well with our wish to make these invisible diseases visible,” summarizes Any-Claude Lambert, from the Afa France association who will offer, throughout the duration of the exhibition, a information stand.
