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Revision as of 11:12, 21 October 2019

Social Studies

Village interaction

IISERK Survey

Leishmaniasis is classified as a Neglected Tropical Disease. To know the cognizance of the public about this deadly disease, we reached out to the student community of IISER Kolkata. Hence we circulated an online questionnaire which focused on the state of awareness about this disease.

The survey audience consisted of students from various Basic Science departments with an age group range of between 18-25 years.

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Since the survey audience were undergraduate and post-graduate science students, most of them had heard about the disease through one or the other medium. A significant portion of the audience came to know about the disease through our awareness efforts. The majority of people had previous knowledge through the course of their academics.

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Even though our campus is in West Bengal, a hotspot of the disease,the audience was largely unaware of the seriousness of the disease.

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Majority of the audience were aware about the cause of this disease. But a significant portion of the answers were incorrect. Though a large majority had heard about the disease, they were not knowing about the intricacies of it.

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Leishmania parasite infect with the help of the sandfly vector. A better part of the audience knew the correct answer. Still, an even less number of people were aware about it. As we went deeper and deeper into the specifics, number of correct answers kept on reducing.

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Bihar and West Bengal are the hotspots of Leishmaniasis in India. A significant number of people gave the correct answer, still the number is less. People were mostly unaware about the occurences of the disease.

International iGEM Survey

After our survey in our college, we decided we need to know how are other iGEM teams are about the disease we are tackling. Representatives of different iGEM teams participated by filling out our form.

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Most of the survey audience was unaware about the expensive treatment required for treating the disease. A significant portion answered correctly that treatment is high-priced and out of reach to most of society.

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The answers are evenly distributed. Only a small number of the people knew that this disease affects mainly people from a weak economical background.

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Bystander survey

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