Women Deliver 2023: a major step forward for MHH

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...

Menstrual health and hygiene country snapshots

Together with MH Day partner Days for Girls, country snapshots for several African countries have been released and with Canada the first overview for a high-income country was published in March 2024. The country snapshots provide a research-based, high-level...

Status of menstruation in Germany

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...

Kaerney & WASH United report (2020)

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...

Period Tax – collective action to end period taxes in Ghana

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...