Have you ever thought how menstruation became a taboo? Is it because of the blood or the secrecy that was attached to it? Or because it only happens to women? In my culture menstruation has been treated as a women's issue,...
Words by Patricia Kajumba For more than a year now, I have dedicated myself to promoting the Happy Flow Campaign on all my social media platforms and in ground spaces that I occupy. Whilst calling upon people to sign and s...
Words by Zwelithini Matsoso Until there are laws that protect and raise the legal obligations for duty-bearers in Menstrual Health Management (MHM), free distribution of dignity packs (sanitary pads) will likely remain a ch...
Words Thabisani Ncube Menstrual hygiene challenges are rooted in gender inequality as such the role of men and boys in community menstrual hygiene health rights and management needs to be emphasized. One of the unde...
Patricia Kajumba The 2nd National Girl Summit was organized by Girls Not Brides Uganda which is a national alliance of over 89 civil society organizations committed to working collectively to end child marriage in Uganda. ...
Precious Shongwe In my context or world, 'community' would mean girls and women living with HIV coming together as a powerful force taking the lead in ensuring the end of AIDS by 2030. A lot has been done globally, regi...
Words by Nthabiseng Ditshweu As a queer woman and young leader, I have realised a gap in enriching queer people with Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) knowledge. For as far as we have been gravitating towards comprehensiv...
Words by Augustine Kumah. Adolescents face inter-related barriers that prevent them from accessing facility-based Reproductive Health (RH) services. These include: Individual barriers, such as feelings of shame, fear or...
Mzi Nduna, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand Rev Vusi Vilakati, Bethesda Methodist Church, Johannesburg There was no business as usual in the first week of September 2019 in South Africa. Governm...
Words by John Otieno It's been such a sad moment for our country Kenya and indeed the world as a whole in the past few days when the country woke-up to a heartbreaking news of a menstrual stigma-related death. The inci...