Inappropriate flushing of menstrual sanitary products

Reusable sanitary towels: promoting menstrual hygiene in post-earthquake Nepal.

It is a normal human tendency to 'run for your life' when an earthquake occurs. Adolescent girls and women of reproductive age leave their homes with only the clothes they are wearing to save their own and their families' lives. Immediate disaster relief aid with its (unintentional) lack of gender sensitivity has little or no materials for the appropriate management of menstrual hygiene. The bi...

Uniform Sanitary Epidemiological and Hygienic Requirements for Products subject to Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision (Control)

Menstrual blood loss and fibrin degradation products.

As part of a large-scale study of menstrual blood loss in the community serum fibrin degradation products were measured soon after menstruation in 331 women. No significant correlation was found between the amount of blood lost and the serum level of fibrin degradation products. These findings conflict with reports suggesting that excessive intrauterine fibrinolysis, which may play a part in me...

Online Appendix for Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance

This Appendix provides details and expanded results for our paper, “Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”. In the main paper we present the data and experimental design. Our results show negative, although small, effects of periods on school attendance. We find no significant effect of modern sanitary products on reducing the small effect ...

Menstrual hygiene in Ugandan schools: an investigation of low-cost sanitary pads