Menstrual Hygiene Day: Nepal’s movement for dignified menstruation gathers pace
More than 80 organisations and activists are now part of a growing alliance that is working to educate, advocate and break the silence surrounding menstruation.
Topic Category: WASH
Nepal’s Menstrual Movement, Part I: Tackling Taboos
Keki Adhikari is a well-known actress, model and film producer in her native Nepal. Since October 2020, she has a new role: as goodwill ambassador for menstrual health. Working with the GIZ-implemented Support to the Health Sector Programme (S2HSP) and the Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management Partners Alliance (MHM PA), she is raising awareness about …
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Tackling healthcare waste on the top of the world
Not long ago in Nepal, like in many other lower-middle income countries, healthcare waste – from personal protective equipment, such as gloves and gowns, to used swabs and bandages, expired drugs, needles, laboratory reagents and chemicals – was simply dumped behind health facilities, mixed with general waste and sent to landfills, or openly burned.
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Rapid support for primary health care centers in a time of great confusion
Hot off the press: ‘No time to waste’ in Nepal
Transforming healthcare waste management for a healthier, more sustainable Nepal
Reducing the environmental cost of saving lives
Guided by the concept of ‘planetary health,’ it’s time to get serious about waste management in the health sector
Fighting discriminatory practices and ‘period poverty’
Making life better for girls and women in Nepal – month after month
The monthly exile: Making life better for menstruating girls and women
In many parts of the developing world, sanitary products and hygiene facilities for menstruating women and girls are unavailable or inadequate
Keeping children ‘Fit for School’
Simple, scalable and sustainable school health in the Philippines