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Menstrual hygiene management: Looking beyond WASH

A study from rural Odisha found that exclusive focus on provision of facilities such as household latrines or bathing areas with access to piped water did not help much in improving menstrual hygiene practices until the sociocultural barriers experienced by women were also addressed.

Jane Ferma

Suzanna C. Francis

Posted on 19 Apr, 2022 11:47 AM

Managing menstruation, with dignity

More than 300 million girls and women between the ages of 15 and 49 are menstruating everyday. Managing menstruation hygienically and with dignity is crucial for health and well being of women.

Women in Deogarh, Odisha (Image Source: Ekta Parishad via Wikimedia Commons)

What do rural women say about sanitation?

Women, who need safe sanitation the most, are often left out of crucial sanitation-related decisions at households, a study says.

Parimita Routrey

Thomas Clasen

Wolf-Peter Schmidt

Posted on 15 Aug, 2017 10:09 AM

Does gender matter when it comes to sanitation? Apparently, it does.

Women and their unvoiced sanitation needs. (Women in Deogarh morning, Orissa, India. Source: Simon Williams / Ekta Parishad)

Communal versus neighbour-shared latrines: Which is better?

A study in Odisha found that communal latrines were less accessible, less likely to have water, were cleaned less frequently and were more likely to have visible faeces and flies.

Marieke Heijnena

Parimita Routraya

Posted on 31 Oct, 2015 07:58 PM

As many as 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation globally. 710 million of these people live in urban areas. In India alone, 769 million people lack access to improved sanitation and as high as 597 million people defecate in the open.

Shared sanitation facilities in India

Sanitation and health outcomes (Source: Sourabh Phadke)

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