2024
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4171363/v1
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“I really hate it” - Menstruation Experience and Practices among Female Tertiary Students in Hohoe Municipality, Ghana

Israel Wuresah,
Esther Twumasi Ankrah,
Priscilla Klutse
et al.

Abstract: In low- and middle-income settings, myths, taboos, and socio-cultural restrictions create barriers for menstruating individuals to acquire accurate information about menstruation, and this limit their daily and routine activities, and have the potential to negatively affect their self-esteem, reproductive health, and schooling. The ‘socio-menstrual’ milieu - beguiled with discrimination, stigmatization, heavy presence of myths and misconceptions, and social exclusion of the menstruating woman - have profound i… Show more

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