Girls need help with menstrual hygiene - WaterAid

Adolescence in girls signifies the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Good menstrual hygiene is crucial for the health, education and dignity of girls and women. This is an important sanitation issue which has long been in the closet; and there is a long-standing need to openly discuss it.

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) reaffirms its position that comprehensive sexuality education is part of the skills-based health education that young people require.

It says puberty should not be taught in isolation, rather it should be delivered through a developmentally appropriate skills-based health education curriculum framework that starts as early as age five and continues into young adulthood.

Menstrual hygiene

A research by WaterAid Ghana (WAG) has underscored the need for the provision of the needed water and hygienic facilities in schools to help deal effectively with the issue of menstrual