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Menstrual hygiene management in public high schools in Ghana. [PDF]
Afr Health Sci, 2022 In the ten (10) regions of Ghana. The findings showed that most girls in Public Senior High Schools in Ghana had prior knowledge about menstruation from their mothers and sisters prior to menarche. It was revealed that majority of the girls mentioned hormones as the cause of menstruation, whilst others mentioned the uterus, bladder, vagina, and other ...
Abor PA.
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Menstrual hygiene management among reproductive-aged women with disabilities in Bangladesh. [PDF]
Health Sci RepAbstractBackgroundWomen with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries face unique challenges in managing menstruation, affecting their health, dignity, and quality of life.ObjectiveThis study explored menstrual hygiene management (MHM) practices among reproductive-aged women with disabilities in Bangladesh and its impact on social participation.
Khan MN +5 more
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Does India’s Menstrual Hygiene Management Scheme exclude the disabled? [PDF]
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2022 The Menstrual Hygiene Scheme of the Government of India wishes to generate awareness among adolescent girls, and provide them with hygienic and affordable sanitary napkins. The scheme has been criticised for many reasons by various reviewers. However, we draw attention to a hitherto unaddressed gap that the scheme has effectively overlooked, the ...
Daisy, Dutta, Chhanda, Chakraborti
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Menstrual Hygiene Management: A Literature Review
Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, 2021 Background: Menstruation is seldom regarded as an act of immense kindness put forward by a woman to ensure the human race doesn’t cease but ironically, it is now too in this so called modernized world is considered a dirty, unclean, shameful, taboo linking it with the so called term of women’s weakness in which she is at times even considered ...
Sonali Chaudhari, Prasad Pagore
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Menstrual Hygiene Management in Resource-Poor Countries [PDF]
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 2017 Importance Adequate management of menstrual hygiene is taken for granted in affluent countries; however, inadequate menstrual hygiene is a major problem for girls and women in resource-poor countries, which adversely affects the health and development of adolescent girls.
Kuhlmann, Anne Sebert +2 more
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Menstrual hygiene: a ‘silent’ need during disaster recovery [PDF]
, 2016 Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene. There is an increasing awareness to incorporate inclusive, participatory, and gender-sensitive strategies for implementation of response ...
Krishnan, S, Twigg, J
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Poor menstrual hygiene management – an adverse outcome of menstrual stigmatization in Pakistan
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2021 Dear Editor, menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is defined as the awareness and confidence to manage one’s periods using hygienic products, having bathing and washing facilities and the ability to dispose of used menstrual products with dignity and privacy [1]. In Pakistan’s predominantly conservative society, menstruation and menstrual practices still
Rabia Maryam, Mustafa, Asmat, Zehra
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What’s missing in MHM? Moving beyond hygiene in menstrual hygiene management [PDF]
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019 Menstruation is having a moment. 2015 was dubbed the “Year of the Period” by National Public Radio in the United States and “the year the period went public” in Cosmopolitan (p.96).1 The widespread...
Jennifer Thomson +3 more
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TV Advertisement and Menstrual Hygiene Management
International Journal of Social Science Research, 2020 Menstruation is an absolute natural-normal biological process of adolescents though it is unfortunately accompanied with different taboos in the society of Bangladesh. A significant number of adolescent girls have considerable lacuna of knowledge on menstruation as well as menstrual hygiene management.
Lutfun Nahar Poly +2 more
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Menstrual hygiene in South Asia: A Neglected Issue for WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Programmes [PDF]
, 2010 This article explores the reasons why menstrual hygiene management is not generally included in WASH initiatives, the social and health impacts of this neglect on women and girls, and provides examples of successful approaches to tackling menstrual ...
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