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As noted by global academic literature, the paucities associated with period poverty connect strongly with all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), in particular SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 5 (gender equality), and SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation). Unfortunately, the menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) of menstruators remains underexplored within academic literature. This is especially true of the global South context. In this chapter, we focus on MHH by exploring the normative silencing of women in overlooking MHH as a sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issue in Africa and the Caribbean region. Menstruators are an often forgotten community, with concerns related to their SRHR as well as MHH remaining relatively low on the agenda of public health interventions. This widens the gap for the equitable access of menstruators to safe and readily available menstrual health products (MHP), education, and resources. Using an intersectional feminist standpoint, we politicise this silence in menstrual academic research in Africa and the Caribbean region as reflective of the wider cultural and social issues within the global context, SRHR, and indeed the UN SDGs. It is hoped that the gaps in literature and nodes for social justice that are highlighted in this chapter will establish the need for future research and informed engagement on the topic.

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The Politics of Menstrual Stigmas and Taboos: Integrating Menstrual Health and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in Africa and the Caribbean Region

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    2025年

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  • Janice K. Moodley-Marie,
  • Bianca R. Parry

摘要

As noted by global academic literature, the paucities associated with period poverty connect strongly with all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), in particular SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 5 (gender equality), and SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation). Unfortunately, the menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) of menstruators remains underexplored within academic literature. This is especially true of the global South context. In this chapter, we focus on MHH by exploring the normative silencing of women in overlooking MHH as a sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issue in Africa and the Caribbean region. Menstruators are an often forgotten community, with concerns related to their SRHR as well as MHH remaining relatively low on the agenda of public health interventions. This widens the gap for the equitable access of menstruators to safe and readily available menstrual health products (MHP), education, and resources. Using an intersectional feminist standpoint, we politicise this silence in menstrual academic research in Africa and the Caribbean region as reflective of the wider cultural and social issues within the global context, SRHR, and indeed the UN SDGs. It is hoped that the gaps in literature and nodes for social justice that are highlighted in this chapter will establish the need for future research and informed engagement on the topic.