In July, WASH United and a wide range of partners from the Menstrual Hygiene Day movement joined thousands of delegates from all around the world for three days of advocacy, learning and networking at the 2023 Women Deliver Conference in Kigali/Rwanda, the biggest and...
We’ve partnered with Days for Girls and Irise Institute East Africa (IIEA) to bring you a series of easy-to-use summaries of the menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) context for several countries in eastern and southern Africa. The first snapshots are the outcome of a...
Menstruation is as normal as breathing. Yet around the world the issue continues to be neglected at all levels, resulting in persisting taboos and stigma and lack of access to information about menstruation, period products and adequate infrastructure. The negative...
With the report “Menstruation im Fokus”, Plan International Germany and WASH United are publishing the first representative data on the state of menstruation in Germany. What we found is shocking.🩸 More than one fifth of survey participants had no idea what happened...
Addressing the menstruation-related challenges of women and girls This joint paper by WASH United and Kaerney provides insights into the menstruation-related challenges. The research reveals that the challenges create a lose-lose situation for individuals but also for...
Campaigners in Ghana have been advocating for the removal of taxes on menstrual products. While government representative has spoken in favour of removing the tax, it remains and currently stands at 12,5% VAT, and 20% for import tax. Ghana’s latest population census...
