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Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda

Progress has been made in recent years to bring attention to the challenges faced by school-aged girls around managing menstruation in educational settings that lack adequate physical environments and social support in low- and middle-income countries. To enable more synergistic and sustained progre...

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Autores principales: Sommer, Marni, Caruso, Bethany A., Torondel, Belen, Warren, Elodie C., Yamakoshi, Brooke, Haver, Jackie, Long, Jeanne, Mahon, Thérèse, Nalinponguit, Ella, Okwaro, Neville, Phillips-Howard, Penelope A.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33388085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00669-8
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author Sommer, Marni
Caruso, Bethany A.
Torondel, Belen
Warren, Elodie C.
Yamakoshi, Brooke
Haver, Jackie
Long, Jeanne
Mahon, Thérèse
Nalinponguit, Ella
Okwaro, Neville
Phillips-Howard, Penelope A.
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Caruso, Bethany A.
Torondel, Belen
Warren, Elodie C.
Yamakoshi, Brooke
Haver, Jackie
Long, Jeanne
Mahon, Thérèse
Nalinponguit, Ella
Okwaro, Neville
Phillips-Howard, Penelope A.
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description Progress has been made in recent years to bring attention to the challenges faced by school-aged girls around managing menstruation in educational settings that lack adequate physical environments and social support in low- and middle-income countries. To enable more synergistic and sustained progress on addressing menstruation-related needs while in school, an effort was undertaken in 2014 to map out a vision, priorities, and a ten-year agenda for transforming girls’ experiences, referred to as Menstrual Hygiene Management in Ten (MHM in Ten). The overarching vision is that girls have the information, support, and enabling school environment for managing menstruation with dignity, safety and comfort by 2024. This requires improved research evidence and translation for impactful national level policies. As 2019 marked the midway point, we assessed progress made on the five key priorities, and remaining work to be done, through global outreach to the growing network of academics, non-governmental organizations, advocates, social entrepreneurs, United Nations agencies, donors, and national governments. This paper delineates the key insights to inform and support the growing MHM commitment globally to maximize progress to reach our vision by 2024. Corresponding to the five priorities, we found that (priority 1) the evidence base for MHM in schools has strengthened considerably, (priority 2) global guidelines for MHM in schools have yet to be created, and (priority 3) numerous evidence-based advocacy platforms have emerged to support MHM efforts. We also identified (priority 4) a growing engagement, responsibility, and ownership of MHM in schools among governments globally, and that although MHM is beginning to be integrated into country-level education systems (priority 5), resources are lacking. Overall, progress is being made against identified priorities. We provide recommendations for advancing the MHM in Ten agenda. This includes continued building of the evidence, and expanding the number of countries with national level policies and the requisite funding and capacity to truly transform schools for all students and teachers who menstruate.
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spelling pubmed-77763012021-01-04 Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda Sommer, Marni Caruso, Bethany A. Torondel, Belen Warren, Elodie C. Yamakoshi, Brooke Haver, Jackie Long, Jeanne Mahon, Thérèse Nalinponguit, Ella Okwaro, Neville Phillips-Howard, Penelope A. Health Res Policy Syst Review Progress has been made in recent years to bring attention to the challenges faced by school-aged girls around managing menstruation in educational settings that lack adequate physical environments and social support in low- and middle-income countries. To enable more synergistic and sustained progress on addressing menstruation-related needs while in school, an effort was undertaken in 2014 to map out a vision, priorities, and a ten-year agenda for transforming girls’ experiences, referred to as Menstrual Hygiene Management in Ten (MHM in Ten). The overarching vision is that girls have the information, support, and enabling school environment for managing menstruation with dignity, safety and comfort by 2024. This requires improved research evidence and translation for impactful national level policies. As 2019 marked the midway point, we assessed progress made on the five key priorities, and remaining work to be done, through global outreach to the growing network of academics, non-governmental organizations, advocates, social entrepreneurs, United Nations agencies, donors, and national governments. This paper delineates the key insights to inform and support the growing MHM commitment globally to maximize progress to reach our vision by 2024. Corresponding to the five priorities, we found that (priority 1) the evidence base for MHM in schools has strengthened considerably, (priority 2) global guidelines for MHM in schools have yet to be created, and (priority 3) numerous evidence-based advocacy platforms have emerged to support MHM efforts. We also identified (priority 4) a growing engagement, responsibility, and ownership of MHM in schools among governments globally, and that although MHM is beginning to be integrated into country-level education systems (priority 5), resources are lacking. Overall, progress is being made against identified priorities. We provide recommendations for advancing the MHM in Ten agenda. This includes continued building of the evidence, and expanding the number of countries with national level policies and the requisite funding and capacity to truly transform schools for all students and teachers who menstruate. BioMed Central 2021-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7776301/ /pubmed/33388085 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00669-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Caruso, Bethany A.
Torondel, Belen
Warren, Elodie C.
Yamakoshi, Brooke
Haver, Jackie
Long, Jeanne
Mahon, Thérèse
Nalinponguit, Ella
Okwaro, Neville
Phillips-Howard, Penelope A.
Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33388085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00669-8
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