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 overview of three key aspects:
- The MHH context: Read key information on the situation in each country, including access to menstrual products, washrooms and water, information and education, and social support.
- Policy landscape: Get an overview of existing policies and strategies, product taxes and standards, and related policies that may fall under other sectors such as education or WASH.
- Recommended resources: Access a suite of recommended resources and additional materials curated by regional experts
They are a powerful tool for advocacy and helpful your media work.
County Snapshots Africa
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 webinar series hosted by Days for Girls and IIEA in early 2022, and we worked together to make the information available to you. The first round of snapshots which include Kenya, Uganda and Malawi were released in May 2022. Three more snapshots were released in October 2022, covering Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Rwanda. The snapshot for South Africa was published on MH Day 2023 and Ghana in November 2023.
Country snapshot Canada
The 2024 Canada Snapshot was a collaborative research effort headed by Days for Girls and involved leading experts from universities, non-profit organizations, and menstruation initiatives across Canada. This report has produced incredible insights into the realities of MH in Canada and revealed some of the MH inequities facing indigenous communities, incarcerated individuals, and underserved youth and communities. Read the blog post here.
Asia & Pacific country data
Burnett Institue, WaterAid and UNICEF published in 2023 a regional progress review on menstrual health in East Asia and the Pacific. Individual country overview are likewise available.
Furthermore, please check out the WaterAid and UNICEF’s country profiles for Asia that have been updated in 2021. Countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Maledives, Nepal, SriLanka.