Advocates first launched Menstrual Health Day in 2014 to highlight importance of menstrual health management education that empowers persons, who menstruate, to fully participate in the society and live a healthy and self-determined life.
This year’s theme, ‘Making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030,’ is to build a world where no girl is without safety supplies, easy access to sanitary products and menstruation a normal subject, which could be discussed publicly. Also, the foundation’s Nigeria Country Programme Director, Dr. Echey Ijezie, pointed out as governments loosen COVID-19 restrictions worldwide, people, who menstruate, are back to their various endeavours, while attempting to manage their periods.