Menstrual Stigma
Cross-source consensus on Menstrual Stigma from 1 sources and 4 claims.
1 sources · 4 claims
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- Menstruation in the region is commonly perceived as shameful, dirty, and smelly. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Participants experienced shame and anxiety about leaking menstrual blood in public and being judged by the community. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Stigma and internal shame created pressure to obtain commercial sanitary products by any available means. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Interventions are recommended to challenge beliefs that menstrual blood is unclean and that menstruation prohibits sex. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics