UNICEF's Booklet on Menstrual Hygiene Management Released

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Saturday, March 08, 2008 at 3:47:18 PM
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In a function marking the International Women’s Day and the International Year of Sanitation, young adolescent girls and women from villages of Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh released a guidance booklet developed by UNICEF on menstrual hygiene management and a short film on the same in New Delhi today.


The gathering included Santha Sheela Nair, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water Supply, Gautam Budhha Mukherjee, Secretary, Tribal Welfare, Ann Hasselbalch, Deputy Director, UNICEF, Lizette Burgers, Chief, Water and Sanitation Section and many other officials from the government, other agencies and UNICEF India.

Although menstrual hygiene is an issue that every girl and woman has to deal with in her life, there is lack of information on the process of menstruation, the physical and psychological changes associated with puberty and proper requirements for managing menstruation. The taboos surrounding this issue in the society prevents girls and women from articulating their needs and the problems of poor menstrual hygiene management have been ignored or misunderstood.

Good menstrual hygiene is crucial for the health, education, and dignity of girls and women. This is an important sanitation issue which has long been in the closet and there was a long standing need to openly discuss it.

Delivering her address on the occasion, Santha Sheela Nair said “Being a woman myself, I found that besides every other need, there was also a huge issue of menstrual hygiene and women needed privacy and facilities for dealing with menstrual hygiene”.

Equipping adolescent girls with adequate information and skills on menstrual hygiene and its management is seen as empowering them with knowledge which enhances their self-esteem and academic performance.
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chinwe

4/15/2009

Thanks for your wonderful and innovative article. it's so good to know that we are now breaking out of the culture of silence surrounding these issues. My name is Chinwe Nweze and I work in an NGO based in Nigeria. In 2007 my organization organized a training on menstrual hygiene for hygiene officers. Presently from our experiences with the youth, we want to step down this training to adolscents in schools. I will appreciate if we can get the booklet and the advocacy film. Am looking forward to hearing from you.
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chinomso24

4/2/2009

very gd publication, i realy appreciat it alot. I am 25years old and a nigerian. I run an NGO and am currntly planning to do a program on menstrual hygiene in the universities and and at the rural communities and as well give out free pads, I do all these to help my poeple wiyh my litle salary am yet to ever get funds for now. How do I get this booklet to pass the information on menstrual hygiene. My name is chinomso Ibe , my NGO is Traffina foundation for community health, .
Thanks and expecting your reply

Nomso
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jhumpa ghosh

3/18/2009

I am attach with an NGO, named Change Initiatives.
we want to work on menstrual hygiene and production of sanitary napkin.

How can i get the booklet and film for awareness proggramme?And from where we can manage training?
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