World Menstrual Hygiene Day : When Menstruation Becomes A Problem!

Girls have given it several names. Some call it “Bra”, others call it “Congo”, but the biological name is menstruation. Medically speaking, menstruation is a healthy biological process which is the normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman's monthly cycle. Every month, medics say the body of a woman prepares for pregnancy. If no pregnancy occurs, the uterus, or womb, sheds its lining in the form of blood and partly tissue from inside the uterus. This monthly flow of blood is becoming a problem to most girls. This is not because they have been involved in acts of sexual intercourse, but their limitation to manage proper menstrual hygiene. That is why today, the world is commemorating Menstrual Hygiene Management Day to highlight the lack of proper hygiene and importance of good menstrual hygiene management at a global level.
An advocate for menstrual hygiene management, Nadia Ntumaghe says menstrual hygiene management (MHM) or menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) refers to access to menstrual hygiene products to absorb or collect the flow of blood during menstruation, privacy to change the materials, and access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials. In Cameroon, Nadia Ntumaghe says the topic is still ignored and not very popularized in the society. This unfortunately leads to difficulties regarding the management of menstrual hygiene. According to statistics,...