‘Levelling Up’ Efforts for Menstrual Health.
In 2024, Pandemic Periods will focus on ‘Levelling Up. Levelling Up means creating opportunities for everyone across our movement, and for menstrual health to be integrated into global agendas, policies, and constitutions. 2024 is a poignant year for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and bodily autonomy, with the 30-Year Review of the Implementation of the […]
Menstrual Equity is the gateway to SRHR, Human Rights, and Health for All!
Menstrual health is central to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), and is an integral part of attaining several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1: No Poverty, SDG 3: Enhancing Health and Well-being, SDG 5: Gender Equality, SGD 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and […]
A Global Call For Action To Eliminate Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence is a pervasive and deeply rooted issue that affects individuals across the globe, irrespective of their age, race, socioeconomic status, or nationality. Globally, an estimated 736 million women—almost one in three—have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their lives (30 per […]
Climate Change and Menstrual Health Unearthing an Unseen Connection
As we approach the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, we must elevate the challenges that the climate crisis will have on women, adolescent girls, and people who menstruate. The climate crisis is not “gender neutral”. Women and girls experience the impacts of climate change the greatest, which exacerbates existing gender inequalities and poses unique threats […]
Youth are not just the Leaders of Tomorrow; they are the Leaders of Today!
Ivy Crane Kutswa, Pandemic Periods Global Youth Council, Kenya Today, we celebrate International Day of the Girl Child 2023! In today’s fast-paced world, it is easy to overlook the importance of comprehensive menstrual health education despite the persistent global issue of period poverty affecting millions of adolescent girls and women worldwide. The lack of access […]
UNGA78 Resolutions Fail to Recognise Menstrual Health
Attaining menstrual health is not just a matter of choice, but a cornerstone of equality, dignity, and rights for all. There are approximately 1.8 billion women, adolescent girls, transgender men, people who are intersex, and nonbinary people who experience menstruation [1,2]. Menstrual health is a public health and human rights issue, cutting across eight Sustainable […]
A Spotlight on Menstrual Health Policy in Southeast Asia & Taiwan
Menstrual health policy in Southeast Asia and Taiwan are emerging discourses in the region’s policy sector. Increased literature and scholarship on menstrual movements within the region allowed for research-driven policymaking. This blog aims to highlight menstrual health advancement efforts and current region-specific bodies of literature in the field in parallel with implemented policies across the […]
The (Bloody) Politics of Periods
In July 2023, the first Women Deliver conference since 2019 will be held in Kigali, Rwanda. We are pleased to see that menstrual health is on the agenda, but we still urge the global health and development community to follow the examples of menstrual activists around the world to do even more. While we’re seeing […]
Why is the WHA not talking about menstruation?!
Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is an opportunity to drive collective action to advance the funding, policy, programmes, and practices that enable menstrual health. It has been an internationally recognised event since 2014 with a long-term plan for reducing the impact of menstrual health and hygiene stigma and advocating for the advancement of “educational opportunities, […]
Reproductive justice: the missing piece of the digital rights puzzle
Disclaimer: for ease of language, women are referred to as all child-bearing people Coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice, reproductive justice [1] refers to women’s inherent right to maintain bodily autonomy and decide freely and responsibly over matters related to their reproductivity, namely the right to have children […]