#ActionforMenstrualHygieneEducation. Collectively aiming to reach 100 Mio girls by 2025
Commitment description:WASH United, as the organizer of the #Action4MHeducation leading up to Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019, collected the commitments of 310 organizations worldwide to educate a total of 42.4 million adolescent girls on menstruation in 2019. By 2025, we aim to reach 100 million girls through the #Action4MHeducation every year.
We as partners of MH Day continue to advocate for the integration of menstrual health and hygiene management into broader SRHR and public health education programmes such as comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), because these are fundamental to autonomy, agency, informed- choice and well-being.
Ensuring access to information for adolescents enables them to make informed choices about how to manage their menstruation hygienically and without fear and shame. Menstrual health can also be an entry pathway to the discussion about more sensitive, sexual health- and gender-related issues.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionEducation around menstruation for adolescents will change everything.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
