Why focusing on menstrual health and hygiene is the need of the hour?
Why focusing on menstrual health and hygiene is the need of the hour? "We knew we shouldn’t be ashamed. We weren’t ashamed. We were grown-ass women—which is obviously why we paraded to the restrooms with tampons secretly stuffed into our cardigan sleeves as though we were spies delivering encrypted information…” - Chandler Baker, Whisper Network In order to address the issue of menstrual hygiene and snub the stigma and taboos that people often attach to it, we need to understand what the process of menstruation really is. Menstruation begins between the ages of 12-15 and continues till the woman is 45-50 years old. It is the disposal of blood and mucosal tissues from the vagina and it occurs for a span of about five days every month . The interval between the first day of the ongoing period and the first day of the next period is 21-31 days (on an average 28 days) . If there is no sign of menstruation even after the age of 15 or if...