Information & Resources on Period Poverty and Menstrual Equity*
“5 Things to Know about Menstrual Equity and Period Poverty,” Girls Inc. https://girlsinc.org/5-things-to-know-about-menstrual-equity-and-period-poverty/
“Period Equity: What It Is and Why It Matters,” by Dr. Huma Farid, MD. Harvard Health. June 1, 2021. www.health.harvard.edu/blog/period-equity-what-is-it-why-does-it-matter-202106012473
“Period Poverty: Why It Should be Everybody’s Business,” by Janet Michel, Annette Mettler, Silvia Schönenberger, and Daniela Gunz. Journal of Global Health Reports, February 22, 2022. www.joghr.org/article/32436-period-poverty-why-it-should-be-everybody-s-business
PERIOD. Knowledge, resources, and advocacy toolkits on period poverty: https://period.org/periodpoverty
PERIOD. Videos on period poverty: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLztjgSVB9x2ONoi3t0yOBO9AQ6ZLZukA7
“State of the Period 2023,” by Thinx, Inc. and PERIOD. https://period.org/uploads/2023-State-of-the-Period-Study.pdf
“Period Poverty and Mental Health Implications Among College-Aged Women in the United States,” by Lauren F. Cardoso, Anna M. Scales, Alzahra Hamidaddin, and Jhumka Gupta. BMC Women’s Health, January 6, 2021. https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-020-01149-5
“Unmet Menstrual Hygiene Needs Among Low-Income Women,” by Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Eleanor Peters Bergquist, Djenie Danjoint, and L. Lewis Wall. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, February 2019. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30633137/
“The Prevalence of Period Poverty in Refugee Camps,” by Mrittika Howlader, Women’s Voices for the Earth, December 14, 2021. https://womensvoices.org/2021/12/14/the-prevalence-of-period-poverty-in-refugee-camps/
“Period Poverty and Menstrual Belonging: a Matter of Climate Justice,” by Desmond N. Alugnoa, Trevor Cousins, and Mayumi Sato. The Lancet: Planetary Health. July 2022. www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00141-3/fulltext
“Menstrual health and hygiene empowers women and girls: How to ensure we get it right,” by Jennifer J. Sara, Caren Grown, Sarah Keener, Gaia Hatzfeldt, and Gloria Kuoh, The World Bank. May 23, 2021. https://blogs.worldbank.org/water/menstrual-health-and-hygiene-empowers-women-and-girls-how-ensure-we-get-it-right
“Menstrual Hygiene: Gender inequality, cultural taboos and poverty can cause menstrual health needs to go unmet,” UNICEF. (in English and French) https://www.unicef.org/wash/menstrual-hygiene
“Making Period Stigma History,” UNICEF, May 28, 2021. (in English and Arabic) https://www.unicef.org/mena/stories/making-period-stigma-history#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20end%20stigma,friendly%20and%20gender%2Dsensitive%20WASH
“‘It cannot be this way’: What is period poverty and how to solve it,” by Alexa Mikhail, The 19th. May 26, 2021. https://19thnews.org/2021/05/it-cannot-be-this-way-what-is-period-poverty-and-how-to-solve-it/
“Advancing Menstrual Equity,” by Girls, Inc. https://girlsinc.org/app/uploads/2023/02/Advancing-Menstrual-Equity_022023.pdf
“Period Poverty & Toxic Shock Syndrome,” Alliance for Period Supplies. September 15, 2023. https://allianceforperiodsupplies.org/toxic-shock-syndrome/
“Menstrual Health: a Neglected Public Health Problem,” The Lancet Regional Health — Americas. November 2022. www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00216-2/fulltext
“The Unsanitary Truth About Period Poverty — and What Governments Can Do,” by Victoria Masterson, The World Economic Forum. by June 9, 2022. www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/period-poverty-pain-stigma/
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Dignity Kits. (in English, French, Spanish, and Russian) https://www.unfpa.org/resources/unfpa-basic-dignity-kit
“Menstrual Health and Hygiene,” The World Bank. May 12, 2022. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water/brief/menstrual-health-and-hygiene
*Twelve Moons, Twelve Moons Press, and the resources provided on this website in no way dispense medical or psychiatric advice. The intent is solely to offer information to readers that may provide assistance in seeking knowledge, inspiration, well-being, and self-care support.