increase awareness and action on menstrual health and hygiene around Menstrual Hygiene Day - 28 May
Commitment description:Breaking the silence around girls and women’s *and all people who menstruate* periods and their related social, physical and clinical management requirements across the life course needs the attention in research, practice and policy, including improved education, training and communication.
Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) celebrated 28 May every year since 2014, is the largest plaform for awareness and advocacy around menstrual health and hygiene. It has been celebrated in more than 70 countries in more than 700 events, including support from national governments, media coverage.
The committment for ICPD25 is that MH Day will celebrated in more than 100 countries with 50 national and local governments making tangible a commitments to improve menstrual health and hygiene for their communities by 2025. 280 members of the African Coalition for MHM will contribute to MH Day.
We as partnership for MH Day will commit to work together with governments, UN, NGOs, CSOs, academia, young people, and religious leaders commit to work together with the aim to strengthen coordination, partnerships for advocacy, research and programming to address menstrual health through a multi-sectoral approach.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionContinue to increase awareness and action on menstrual health and hygiene through strengthening partnerships, coordination and advocacy around Menstrual Hygiene Day - 28 May.
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