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Limited access to period products during India's COVID lockdown highlighted how far public health initiatives have to go when it comes to menstruation

With limited social and political support, LGBTQ+ activists have turned to the courts to make their case for marriage equality, write Shreya Sharma and Karan Babbar.

To mark Menstrual Hygiene Day, researchers will discuss menstrual health and stigma and share examples from a range of projects across the world.   This will be followed by breakout sessions to reflect on personal experiences of menstrual stigma and identify actions we will take to end period stigma and make menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030.  

Menstrual health is increasingly recognised as playing a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite this, menstruation remains widely regarded as a taboo subject, having a knock-on impact on the education, health and wellbeing of women, girls and other people who menstruate. 

With every passing generation, a new word for menstruation is unearthed. As the world observes Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021, IBTimes highlights the work of some good men in spreading the awareness