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Download – Menstrual Health and Menstrual Hygiene Management
Title: Menstrual Health and Menstrual Hygiene Management
The links between gender equality and menstrual health are slowly gaining traction, and the global Covid-19 pandemic has once again shone the spotlight on period poverty. Despite successful campaigns in recent years to address unfair pricing of menstrual hygiene products, there are many women and girls who depend on charitable donations or sanitary pads being freely available at school. Menstrual health has naturally been struggling to fight its way to being acknowledged – let alone addressed – as a barrier to social development.
Given that menstrual health is an important part of women’s and girls’ lives, its protection as a right is woven into the Agenda 2030 and several Sustainable Development Goals – it features prominently, though without explicit mention, as an indicator of access to safe sanitation and hygiene (SDG 6.2). Safe menstrual hygiene management and good menstrual health (clearly an aspect of SDG 3) play a critical role in achieving gender equality (SDG 5), affect educational and economic opportunities (SDGs 4 and 8) as well as sustainable consumption and production patterns (SGD 12). Â
Catégorie : Genre, Eau et Assainissement
