Rugare Shalom Zimunya is a social worker, women’s rights defender and gender equality expert. She has a particular interest in sexual reproductive health and rights and has been involved in work in SRHR within the Afri...
Patricia Kajumba is a social worker based in Uganda. She is the founder of the Twekonyere project which seeks to create rural communities where young people autonomously champion their wellbeing and contribute to the deve...
Princess Sekhothali Seeiso, who is now Queen Sekhothali Mabhena of the Ndebele Kingdom in South Africa, is the daughter of Prince Masupha Seeiso, the uncle to His Majesty King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho. Her ...
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...
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...
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 ...
The International Women's Day 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual, It is a call to use our individualism, our individual spaces and our individual choices for the good of the collective with equality as our goal. Let's all ...
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...
The 9th edition of the Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights (ACSHR) is being held at the Kenyatta International Convention Center in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10-14 February 2020. The conference is split into a youth p...
Twekonyere is a Runyoro word meaning let’s help each other/ help ourselves. This is a project name that was inspired by Patricia Kajumba's mother, Ms. Betty Kyomuhendo. It is very significant because this carries a perfect ...
