Menstrual poverty: enough is enough.
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Menstruation is a physiological process that happens every month to about 1.8 billion people worldwide from menarche to menopause as mentioned in this paper, which brings about numerous changes to girls.Abstract:
Menstruation is a physiological process that happens every month to about 1.8 billion people worldwide from menarche to menopause. The normal menstrual cycle brings about numerous changes to girls,...read more
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Coming of age: a qualitative study of adolescent girls’ menstrual preparedness in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Jordan
TL;DR: The study contends that addressing the taboo around menstruation requires joint efforts by the family, school, and social services, and advocates for Comprehensive, Contextually Relevant, Timely Menstrual Preparedness (CCTMP) policies and initiatives, empowering adolescent girls, their mothers, and educators.
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Menstrual health and hygiene among young Palestinian female university students in the West Bank: a cross-sectional study
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated some aspects of menstrual health and hygiene among young female students at Birzeit University in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
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Pobreza menstrual e os impactos na saúde da mulher
Dominiki Maria de Sousa Gonçalves,Hitálo Santos Da Silva,Cleysiane Gonçalves Pequeno,Elis Regina da Silva Ferreira,Jayane Silva Viana,Milena Monte Da Silva,Francisco Amauri dos Santos Verçosa Júnior,Millena Hipólito Freire +7 more
TL;DR: In this article , a revisão bibliográfica integrativa is performed to evaluate a desigualdade socioeconômicas em gestão de higiene menstrual in países de renda média.
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Period Poverty: A Neglected Public Health Issue.
Hafiz Jaafar,Amirah Azzeri +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , a review aimed to explore the definition, challenges, and effects of period poverty on the community, especially among women at their productive ages, and suggestions to minimize the impact of poverty are discussed.
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Tuloni Biya and its impact on menstrual health: A qualitative exploration of the menstrual experiences of adolescent girls in Assam
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the role of the Tuloni Biya cultural event on adolescent girls' health and hygiene management in Assam and found that the cultural event is indicative of the openness of society towards menstruation and its various lesser-known details.
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A Systematic Review of the Health and Social Effects of Menstrual Hygiene Management
Colin Sumpter,Belen Torondel +1 more
TL;DR: There was no quantitative evidence that improvements in management methods reduce school absenteeism and there is a gap in the evidence for high quality randomised intervention studies which combine hardware and software interventions.
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TL;DR: An enhanced meeting report is provided with extensive up-to-date context, capturing the spectrum from how the basic processes of menstruation commence in response to progesterone withdrawal, through the role of tissue-resident and circulating stem and progenitor cells in monthly regeneration—and current gaps in knowledge on how dysregulation leads to abnormal uterine bleeding.
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Julie Hennegan,Inga T. Winkler,Chris Bobel,Danielle Keiser,Janie Hampton,Gerda Larsson,Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli,Marina Plesons,Thérèse Mahon +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a definition of menstrual health developed by the Terminology Action Group of the Global Menstrual Collective (GAWCG) with a broad set of stakeholders.
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Understanding Period Poverty: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Menstrual Hygiene Management in Eight Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Laura Rossouw,Hana Ross +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide empirical evidence of the inequality in menstrual hygiene management in Kinshasa (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rajasthan (India), Indonesia, Nigeria and Uganda using concentration indices and decomposition methods.
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How addressing menstrual health and hygiene may enable progress across the Sustainable Development Goals.
Marni Sommer,Belen Torondel,Julie Hennegan,Julie Hennegan,Penelope A. Phillips-Howard,Thérèse Mahon,Albert Motivans,Garazi Zulaika,Caitlin Gruer,Jacquelyn Haver,Bethany A. Caruso +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a collective effort to hypothesize the linkages between MHH and the 17 SDGs, and to identify how MHH contributes to priority outcome measures within key sectoral areas of relevance to menstruating girls in low and middle-income countries.