Making menstrual health a welfare priority: Insights from three states
Public policies on menstrual health have mainly focussed on distributing sanitary napkins to women and girls. However, in this note, Tanya Rana shares some insights gained from conversations with frontline workers in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan which reveal the need for making more comprehensive menstrual health services available. She highlights that menstrual health schemes suffer from poor programme implementation, and a lack of training for frontline workers. She recommends that convergent thinking in planning can solve for these lacunae.
