The UN Children’s Fund has trained 25 women in the production of re-usable sanitary pads to improve women and girls’ health in Malumfashi Local Council in Katsina State.
Mr Job Ominyi, a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Officer, said this on the sidelines of a Training of Trainers workshop on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Makurdi on Tuesday.
He said that this became necessary following the outcome of a research in 2015 among the three major ethnic groups and realising that there was poor knowledge, attitude and practice on MHM in parts of the country.
According to him, the outcome saw that a large number of women and girls lack information and WASH resources to support hygiene management, saying taboos and myths still played a major role.
He said that there were issues of poor information on disposal of menstrual waste and the unavailability of absorbent materials to manage menstruation, saying the pilot project in Katsina had seen that interventions could be…
