The idea of a period emoji was conceived by the UK based non-profit Plan Action, who ran a survey in 2017 in UK to find that shame and stigma still hinder conversations on menstruation ...
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Menstrual Hygiene
Menstrual Hygiene
In a bid to promote menstrual hygiene and make sanitary napkins affordable and accessible, the government reduced the price of Suvidha pads sold through 5,500 Jan Aushadhi Kendras across the country by 60 per cent ...
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Dr. Surbhi Singh felt that she needs to use her knowledge for greater good when quit her practice as a gynaecologist to start her NGO, today she’s every school kid in Delhi’s ‘Sachhi Saheli’ ...
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Indian Institute of Technology students are venturing to women hygiene sector with start-ups like Cleanse Right and Sanfe providing solutions for the same ...
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Funds have been sanctioned for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to procure a total of 288 pad vending machines to improve menstrual hygiene among women personnel and also install incinerators to scientifically dispose of used sanitary napkins ...
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Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the government is providing that a pack of six sanitary napkins at Rs. 6 per pack through Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) under the central government-funded Menstrual Hygiene Scheme
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The Telangana menstrual hygiene campaign will be procuring sanitary napkins from local Self Help Group entrepreneurs for distributing these among students ...
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To increase awareness about menstruation and menstrual hygiene, Syed Sehrish Asgar, the first woman District Magistrate of Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir conducted an all-woman conclave and distributed incinerators and vending machines among girls from government schools of the district ...
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor sought a response from the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Pharmaceuticals) over the sales and awareness status of the government’s Suvidha sanitary napkins ...
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In a bid to reduce water hyacinth waste and provide a low cost, eco-friendly solution to conventional sanitary napkins, students from Kerala produce pads using water hyacinth ...
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On the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day on May 28, a Delhi-based NGO, Sachhi Saheli in collaboration with the Delhi Legal Services Authority organised a workshop for sanitation workers to make them aware about menstrual hygiene management through discussions, dance performance and skit ...
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As Menstrual Hygiene Day was celebrated on May 28, the state government of Jharkhand has decided to run a state-level campaign to spread awareness among men and women about health and sanitation issues around menstruation ...
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