Pandemic Periods Blog

Pandemic Periods presents an innovative and neoteric thought leadership platform that is co-designed to elevate the voices of researchers, advocates, communications specialist, healthcare workers, community facilitators, policymakers, and activist that are driving the menstrual health agenda in their context. We welcome submissions that apply rights-based approaches and an intersectional lens to offer a unique perspective on menstrual health and period poverty.

According to the UNFPA,

1.3B

There are 1.3 billion women, adolescent girls, non-binary individuals, and transgender men that menstruate every month

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Number of girls out of school worldwide in 2016

800M

800 million individuals are menstruating each day!

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Women die from complications in pregnancy or child

500M

500 million of these people do not have the resources, time or spaces in environments that are free from stigma and shame to attain their menstrual health.

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Need for contraception in sub-Saharan Africa left unmet

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Thailand’s Leap in Period Equity

In  November 2022, Thailand hosted the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) which had the theme of Family Planning and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Since

14 January 2023 No Comments

Gender-based violence and menstrual discrimination

The relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and menstrual health is more entwined than people may think. Both GBV and menstrual discrimination are human rights violations and public

16 November 2022 No Comments
Submission Guidelines
  1. Blogs must offer a unique perspective on menstrual health in the context go gender equality, WASH, emergencies, conflict, decolonisation, crisis, education, SRHR, public health, global, national, or local policy, community-driven programmes, or grassroots advocacy initiatives.  
  2. Blogs must be 900-1,200 words in length – References must be embedded via hyperlinks.
  3. Information on co-authors must be submitted – full name, affiliations, & relevant Twitter handles.
  4.  Blogs can have no more than five authors – there must be ONLY one corresponding author.
  5.  Authorship must be regionally balanced.
  6. priority will be given to authors from low- to middle-income countries. 
  7.  Publication is at the discretion of the Pandemic Periods Editorial Team. 

Submit your blog to info@pandemicperiods.com