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Join #NoShame in Menstruation campaign to promote menstrual hygiene

Start Date: 09-03-2018
End Date: 28-04-2018

Menstruation is a taboo subject in Madhya Pradesh and a topic that even women don’t want to discuss. ...

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Menstruation is a taboo subject in Madhya Pradesh and a topic that even women don’t want to discuss.

According to Project Udita under ICDS, Women and Child Development Department,
• 88 % of women use cloth, ash, soil, dried leaves during menstruation
• Only 12 % of women use sanitary pads
• 42 % of women use the same pieces of cloth repeatedly
• 29 % of women use dirty cloth during menstruation
• Women who do not use sanitary pads are severely prone to the risk of pathogen transmission by up to 70%

Under the Rural Livelihoods Mission in Madhya Pradesh, women self-help groups have come together to break the silence on menstrual hygiene. For the last two years, three units of sanitary pads have been established in the Jhabua district where women are making and selling sanitary pads in their village.

These 'padwomen' have taken up the responsibility to free women and girls in and around their areas where cloth is used during periods.
Rural Madhya Pradesh fared the worst in the country in menstrual health in the latest National Family Health Survey.

ICDS, Women and Child Development Department has initiated #NoShame in Menstruation campaign through MP MyGov to create awareness about menstruation in Madhya Pradesh.

The department invites all citizens to send their suggestions/views on:
• Providing adequate information about menstrual health and hygiene
• Teaching safe use of sanitary pads
• Make low cost sanitary pads available
• To teach environmentally safe disposal mechanisms
• Communicate importance of nutrition during menstruation

This issue needs your attention. Join #NoShame in Menstruation campaign by sending your suggestions. #ParticipateNow

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NANDIKANTI SAI KUMAR 6 years 1 week ago

Awareness on Menstruation should be done from smaller classes like 4 th standard in schools. It is done at higher classes like 9 th standard.Friends should also discuss about Menstruation as it a biological process.Central government instead of putting GST on Sanitary napkins,they should be provided free of cost in all government schools every month .Through print and electronic and social media more awareness should be done.celebrities should come voluntary to do awareness in rural,tribal areas