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Africa Symposium on Menstrual Health 2021

Africa Symposium on Menstrual Health 2021

The event, organized by the African Coalition on Menstrual Health Management (ACMHM) with UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, recognized progress from the first symposium in 2018 with menstrual health policies rolled out across the...

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Menstrual Hygiene in South Asia – updated Country Briefs

Menstrual Hygiene in South Asia – updated Country Briefs

The menstrual hygiene (MH) snapshots series developed by WaterAid and UNICEF provides an update on MH programming in WASH in Schools in South Asia. This is the 2021 updates to the initial series from 2018. The 2018-2020 country snapshots reveal that across the region...

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Global Menstrual Collective

Global Menstrual Collective

There is growing recognition of the importance of improving menstrual health and hygiene to the quality of life and well-being of people who menstruate. Yet this has not been met with a corresponding increase in the investment needed to comprehensively address...

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Webinar – Scrap the Period Tax

Webinar – Scrap the Period Tax

Many low-income women and girls around the world are unable to afford menstrual products. In recent years, there has been growing advocacy momentum for the reduction or removal of taxes on menstrual products to improve affordability and advance overall gender...

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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

 "This book invites you to explore menstruation from nearly every possible angle, including dimensions that you might not yet have considered: the historical, political, embodied, cultural, religious, social, health, economic, artistic, literary and many more....

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