Tag: Menstruation

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has joined the global call to end stigma surrounding menstruation, urging greater awareness, access to ...

1.0 DOKUA’S ORDEAL It is 9:30 a.m. in Accra, Ghana, on a Friday, and the city is already alive. At ...

Underground Mining Alliance (UMA), a contractor of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, has stepped up education targeted at demystifying issues on ...

Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor, has launched a campaign aimed at ending the stigma ...

On average, women and young girls will have four hundred and fifty (450) menstruation over their lifetime, which equals three ...

I experienced my first menstrual flow in Primary 6. I was 12 years old. I did not tell anybody about ...

Hey there! Menstruation is a monthly shedding of the lining of a woman's uterus (more commonly known as the womb). ...

The Bra Dea Foundation has initiated a programme dubbed “Her First Period” to educate girls on menstruation and personal hygiene ...

Gender advocacy NGO, Bridge for Equity Ghana, has started a “NoPadTax” campaign with the hope of urging government to scrap ...

A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and ...

A girl's hygiene cannot be looked down on, especially when it has to do with her genitals. In this civilized ...

With a worried look, I ask, "is it menstrual cramps so I send you home? Or it is endometriosis?" This ...

A 21-year-old Nepali woman died of suffocation in a windowless "menstruation hut" after she lit a fire to keep warm, ...

How is it that many men are repulsed by the thought of buying pads for their mothers, sisters, and wives? ...

In some Ghanaian communities, the myths and taboos surrounding menstruation makes it very difficult for young girls to talk about ...