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Janet Mbugua calls for setting up policies around menstrual health management

Janet Mbugua is Menstrual Hygiene Management advocate (Photo: Instagram @officialjanetmbugua)

May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD), a day dedicated to advocating for women’s right to a hygienic, safe, private and dignified menstruation. It is marked worldwide with different initiatives taken up to call attention on the plight of over 2 billion women and girls who menstruate every month.

As such, media personality Janet Mbugua, who is also a Menstrual Health Management advocate, is petitioning the Kenyan government to put in place policies that will improve menstrual health management (MHM) among Kenyan women.

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