Some facts about menstruation
Lets know some facts about menstruation problems in India:
- 50 % of the world population is women , and they bleed, on an average 3000 days in their life cycle
- Women are the worst sufferers due to lack of sanitation facilities in India.
- According to studies, 30% marginalized women are physically and sexually assaulted to access public toilet while 70% of teenage girls in Delhi slums experience humiliation every day .
- Due to the shortage of toilet facilities, 23% of adolescent girls drop out from schools.
- Because of Menses , I and you are on earth but still there is social taboo and discrimination pertaining to menstruation.
- India’s menstrual waste is estimated at 1,13,000 tonnes annually. (Outlook2018)
- In India only 12% of 355 million(35,50,00,000) women of menstruating age can afford disposable sanitary napkins. But conservatively, these 42.6 million women will throw 21.3 billion sanitary napkins to landfill in their lives (Hindu new paper-2018)
- National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16, say 57.6% of Indian women use sanitary napkins
- Plastic used in pads takes about 500 years to decompose. In fact bio degradable options do contain 20 % of toxic plastic and jell content
- There is no specific Goal or Indicator for MHM but Menstruation Matters SDG Goal 3,4,6,8 & 12
- India is committed to cut emissions to net zero by 2070 with global COP26 summit ( Nov 2021).