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MENSTRUATION IN PANDEMICS Image from  shutterstock In a tweet by UN Women “nearly 1.25 billion women and girls lack access to a safe private toilet”, Menstrual Hygiene Day.   This is alarming and sad to our women and girls. This why the world celebrates world Menstruation Day on 28 th May, which was yesterday  #MHD2020. According to Rebublicanworld.com World Menstrual Hygiene Day was initiated to be on 28 th May, because most cycles take 28 days and last for 5days. Aim of this day is to promote menstrual hygiene in the world. What   is menstruation? Menstruation means   the vaginal bleeding that occurs in human and some animals as a result of the uterus wall shedding off. In women menstruation occurs in different cycles some have regular cycles of 21/ 28 days or more others are irregular. Menstruation/periods comes with various challenges in girls and women. Some may experience ; ü   Headache ü   Vomiting ü   Excess bleeding ü   Dizziness ü   He

Is social -stigmatization the way to Covid-19 ?   I am sure you agree with me it’s not the way to go. But why is it happening in our society? Just the day we saw how a lady in Nakuru was harshly treated by her neighbors after finishing her self-isolation . No one wanted to be associated with her. To make matters worse they killed all her snails she had kept for business. Other incidents have occurred too for instance where Asian-Americans and Chinese were thought to spread the disease. As people get locked in their homes for fear of corona, those thought to spread it stayed indoors too. They feared been attacked by people due to stigmatization. What is social -stigmatization? According to WHO social-stigma is negative association between a person or group of people who share certain characteristics and a specific disease. We therefore discriminate people thinking they are the ones spreading the disease, because they are sick, working as health workers and mingl