The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience
Girls and women face greater threats and severe ramifications from climate change, with studies consistently finding that women experience more health risks from climate change than men do. Climate change endangers girls and women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including their men...
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| author | Arundati Muralidharan Arundati Muralidharan Marije Broekhuijsen Lady Lisondra Aeka Guru Jacquelyn Haver Sidra Irfan |
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| description | Girls and women face greater threats and severe ramifications from climate change, with studies consistently finding that women experience more health risks from climate change than men do. Climate change endangers girls and women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including their menstrual health and hygiene practices. However, menstrual health and hygiene is rarely discussed in the context of climate change. We scoped the existing evidence to describe the interlinkages between climate change and menstrual health and hygiene, and outline services that anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from, adapt to or transform in response to climate related events, trends and disturbances. Specifically, we describe how climate change disrupts access to essential menstrual health and hygiene information, products and services, impacts menstrual disorders and the menstrual cycle, and intensifies existing inequalities. Recommendations for improvement include climate resilient menstrual health and hygiene services encompassing access to menstrual products and materials, impartment of knowledge and skills, access to climate resilient facilities and services, social support, and policy actions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e0b095bc114948a7abc1a896687ee2952025-08-20T02:12:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Global Women's Health2673-50592025-04-01610.3389/fgwh.2025.15690461569046The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilienceArundati Muralidharan0Arundati Muralidharan1Marije Broekhuijsen2Lady Lisondra3Aeka Guru4Jacquelyn Haver5Sidra Irfan6Global Menstrual Collective, London, United KingdomMenstrual Health Action for Impact, New Delhi, IndiaProgramme Group Water Sanitation and Hygiene, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, NY, United StatesInternational Planned Parenthood Federation East, Southeast Asia and Oceania Region, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaYale University, New Haven, CT, United StatesSchool Health and Nutrition, Department of Education and Child Protection, Save the Children, Washington, DC, United StatesMenstrual Rights Global, Lahore, PakistanGirls and women face greater threats and severe ramifications from climate change, with studies consistently finding that women experience more health risks from climate change than men do. Climate change endangers girls and women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including their menstrual health and hygiene practices. However, menstrual health and hygiene is rarely discussed in the context of climate change. We scoped the existing evidence to describe the interlinkages between climate change and menstrual health and hygiene, and outline services that anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from, adapt to or transform in response to climate related events, trends and disturbances. Specifically, we describe how climate change disrupts access to essential menstrual health and hygiene information, products and services, impacts menstrual disorders and the menstrual cycle, and intensifies existing inequalities. Recommendations for improvement include climate resilient menstrual health and hygiene services encompassing access to menstrual products and materials, impartment of knowledge and skills, access to climate resilient facilities and services, social support, and policy actions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1569046/fullmenstrual healthmenstrual hygieneclimate changeclimate resilienceclimate risks |
| spellingShingle | Arundati Muralidharan Arundati Muralidharan Marije Broekhuijsen Lady Lisondra Aeka Guru Jacquelyn Haver Sidra Irfan The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience Frontiers in Global Women's Health menstrual health menstrual hygiene climate change climate resilience climate risks |
| title | The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| title_full | The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| title_fullStr | The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| title_short | The ripple effect: impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| title_sort | ripple effect impacts of climate change on menstrual health and paths to resilience |
| topic | menstrual health menstrual hygiene climate change climate resilience climate risks |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1569046/full |
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