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,...
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...
Slum women, girls lack sexual rights Sponsors visit slum mothers, give them Sh500 in exchange for their daughters, says meeting convenor Dr Uwemedimo Uko Esiet, convener of African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights sa...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
It is essential to have men in discussions of menstrual health. Menstruation should not be regarded as women’s issue but rather a human rights issue. Men ought to support and advocate the reproductive health rights for all ...
