Members of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) make low-cost sanitary pads at their facility in Ahmedabad, India. May 28th marks the sixth annual Menstrual Hygiene Day, created to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management.
Showers, now a mainstay of our daily routines, were once a cure for insanity and criminality.
A new report highlights low- and middle-income countries' need for basic hospital infrastructure and supplies.
People, it seems, are comfortable talking about contraception and about girls living in poverty, but not about their periods, which remain a major hurdle to education in places where adequate facilities are non-existent.
Rose George reports from Nepal and Bangladesh on menstrual taboos.
You've eaten boogers before—admit it. You might even do it now. Either way, one biochemist thinks you're onto something.
In honor of Global Handwashing Day, we examine the hygiene of public restroom users and what motivates them to wash up.
Joanne Goldblum saw poor people reusing disposable diapers and had to do something. Her nonprofit, The Diaper Bank, now gives 150,000 diapers a month to people in need.
Ecological sanitation, or 'ecosan,' can provide both improved hygiene and an income for the majority of the world, where just getting a sip of clean water can be a challenge.
