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Child Cabinet Ministers poses for a photograph

Menstruation matters for girls

Menstruation matters for girls from the tribal belts of Jharkhand

Two girls hold a bowl of pickle

Breaking the Chains of Menstrual Taboos

Santoshi's Courageous Battle for Change

Basant Lal reacts as he sits with his family at his house in Bhagesar in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Men break taboos around menstruation

Basant Lal is a role model in fighting discriminatory practices around menstruation

Nineteen-year-old Suman stands with her peers at her house in Admapur in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Stayfree and UNICEF have been working together for over 7 years to improve menstrual health and hygiene management among adolescent girls.

How is PCOD different from PCOS

PCOS isn't same as PCOD

Nineteen-year-old Suman stands with her peers at her house in Admapur in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Stayfree and UNICEF have been working together for over 7 years to improve menstrual health and hygiene management among adolescent girls.

Busting myths and misconceptions around menstruation

Young girls busting myths around menstruation

Bharti Kumari, a community mobilizer breaks the silence around menstrual hygiene with her sister Nidhi Kumari in their village in Bihar

Bharti advocates for stronger menstrual health

This is how a girl from a rural village supported her community on menstrual hygiene

Prerona Tanti, 18 yrs, of Sapon Tea estate and a member of adolescent girls club show Red Dot on her hand for Menstrual Hygiene Day at Sapon Tea estate.

#RedDotChallenge continues to dispel period stigma and promotes COVID appropriate behaviour

UNICEF, together with adolescent girls, women, partners and advocates, reimagines a world where no girl or woman is held back because of natural menstrual cycles, and where period poverty and stigma is history.