Sex Rights Africa Network

#HappyFlow Monday: What has the pandemic highlighted in terms of MHM?

During this time of coronavirus, we have seen areas of need and gaps in service provision where Menstrual Health Management is concerned. We asked what the most glaring ones were: Natasha Seketa In the wake o...

#HappyFlow Monday: #MenAsAllies - MHM lockdown lessons

During this time, men need to be allies to those who menstruate! We asked some of our MHM allies what they felt was an important lesson to share with other men regarding MHM during lockdown. Wankumbu Simukonda D...

#HappyFlow Monday: How can people ensure a #HappyFlow during this lockdown period?

We asked network members how they would advise people to maintain a #HappyFlow during the lockdown period that many countries are facing due to COVID-19. Mujilowe Ndhlovu Menstrual hygiene still remains a taboo ...

#HappyFlow Moday: How are your communities making provision for sanitary wear during the current COVID-19 pandemic?

As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic makes its way into more countries and communities, we asked network members how their communities are making plans and provisions for ensuring menstrual dignity. Rebecca Achieng -...

#HappyFlow Monday: Period Sex - safe or not?

#HappyFlowMonday Thabisani Ncube Would you have period sex? Menstruation has socially and religiously been deemed as an unclean, impure and dirty period in a woman’s life. This period sigma is a huge irony considering i...

AFSA and IYP donate sanitary products to youths in Kibera Slum Community

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give! The 9th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights theme is 'Advancing the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls Living in Urban In...

SheTalks at the Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

The Sex Rights Africa Network under the AIDS Foundation of South Africa sponsored facilitators to run a SheTalks session as a concurrent session in the Community Village of the ACSHR on the first day of the main conference. T...

Maintaining #HappyFlow at the ACSHR Youth Pre-conference

The Youth Pre-conference of the 9th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights kicks off today in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Kenyatta International Convention Center. Delegates from all over the continent joined the conversati...

HappyFlow Monday: Msicahana Empowerment Kuria receives donations of sanitary wear

Words by Magdaline Majuma Menstruation is the technical term for getting your period - women who have gone through puberty will experience menstrual bleeding. For most girls and women, menstruation happens in a fairly regu...

HappyFlow Moday: Uncomfortable conversations - menstrual stigma

Charles Okoth Happy flow - involving men in menstruation. This has not been a matter that has previously been taken with the heavy weight that it deserves. I feel that, we as men today, can do better to upscale on how w...