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Maintaining healthy menstrual hygiene is of paramount importance to a woman's general well-being, comfort and health. The United Nations defines menstrual hygiene management as the use of clean menstrual hygiene management products to soak menstrual discharge by women that are changeable in privacy as required, with proper access to water, soap and disposal methods. Menstrual hygiene products are the products used to catch menstrual flow, such as pads, cloths, tampons and menstrual cups.  Lack of access to feminine hygiene products (often caused by poverty) compels some women to use unhealthy menstrual hygiene products. Poor menstrual hygiene threatens a  woman's health by exposing her to bacterial vaginosis, fungal infections, urinary tract infections, infertility and others. A woman's risk of getting cervical cancer also increases if she is repeatedly exposed to reproductive tract infections and urinary tract infections (UTIs). Contracting UTIs is possible when a woma...

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removing or expulsing an embryo before it is ready to survive outside the uterus. Medically speaking, abortion is defined as the loss of a fetus, for any reason, before it can survive outside the uterus. This includes both miscarriages and deliberate termination. Abortion in the context of this article refers to the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. So many myths surround abortion, and we'll be debunking some of them in the article. 1. An abortion is dangerous to a woman's health. An abortion is not dangerous when done with a method recommended by the World Health Organization that is appropriate to the duration of the pregnancy, and when done by a qualified medical practitioner. There are two WHO-approved ways of ending a pregnancy: in-clinic abortion and a medical abortion (the abortion pill). According to the WHO, an abortion is deemed unsafe when the pregnancy is terminated  either by persons lacking the necessary ski...

Menstruation/menarche refers to vaginal bleeding that occurs at the end of a menstrual cycle. The endometrial lining builds up throughout the course of every menstrual cycle and is shed at the end, when pregnancy fails to occur. In case you wonder why menstrual cycles are also called periods, they are called so to mean an "interval of time" or a "repeated cycle of events", and this since 1822. Here are 15 surprising facts you may not have known about menstruation. 1. There are more than 5,000 euphemisms for menstruation around the world. These are the most frequently used euphemisms for menstruation in English: Aunt Flo/Aunt Flow/Aunt, Time of the month/TOM/That time of the month, on the rags/rag/ragging, red tide/river, code red, monthly visitor, mother nature, lady friend, bloody Mary, shark week. The French say "Les Anglais ont debarqué", which translates to "The English have landed". 2. Menstrual taboo can still be observed in...