Action to improve menstrual hygiene management (MHM) for schoolgirls in low- and middleincome countries continues to gather momentum around the world. The annual virtual conference on MHM in schools shared recent evidence and programmes that illustrate the continuing progress in the field. The conference provides a vital global platform for practitioners and policy makers to share ideas, discuss approaches to common problems, and to assess progress against the five priorities of the ‘MHM in Ten’ agenda. Now in its seventh year, the conference illustrated some of the successes and challenges we face if we are to realise the MHM in Ten priorities that will improve girls’ lives by 2024.

Presentations:

Bangladesh: Pilot-test of a package of MHM interventions in urban and rural schools
Nepal & Pakistan: Ensuring girls’ rights through improved MHM
Uganda: Menstrual health interventions and school attendance among Ugandans (MENISCUS-2)
Malawi: Girls’ MHM knowledge, attitudes and practices, influencing factors, and the role of boys
El Salvador & The Philippines: Making the case for MHM in Schools: a bottom-up approach to measuring programme success
Ghana: Initial results of comprehensive MHM programme in Ghana
South Asia: A situation analysis of MHM in schools in South Asia
Global: Availability of MHM data for global WASH in schools monitoring

Bibliographic information

UNICEF (2018). WASH in Schools Empowers Girls´ Education Proceedings of the 7th Annual Virtual Conference on Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) - Programme Division/WASH, New York, USA

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BangladeshEl SalvadorGhanaMalawiNepalPakistanPhilippinesUganda

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