This paper explores how official concepts of ‘improved’ sanitation often fail to reflect the priorities of female users. As the health benefits associated with improved sanitation cannot be fully realised until all potential user groups habitually utilize it, specific user preferences/constraints need to be better understood and catered for. Drawing on empirical work in nine schools in Kisumu, ...

Individuals with Down syndrome have an increased risk for many conditions, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, infections, and osteoporosis, and endocrine, neurological, orthopedic, auditory, and ophthalmic disorders. They also are at increased risk for abuse and human rights violations and receive fewer screenings and interventions than the population without Down syndrome. In this liter...

a Dimagi, Inc., 585 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 3, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Correspondence to Vikram Kumar (email: [email protected]) Ruby, a 16-year-old girl who has recently entered puberty, sits next to an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), named Sangeeta, who lives in Ruby’s village Kalua in Bihar and provides basic health services and education as a volunteer for India’s National ...

Introduction: Genital hygiene is an important part of women’s health and essential for protecting reproductive health. Women adopt many genital behaviors, which will have direct indirect effects on genitals possible sexually transmitted infections. This systematic literature review aimed to know the types behaviors practiced by women assess relationship between behavior infection. Methods: A se...

This study assessed the associations between vaginal douching practice and the adverse reproductive tract outcomes, and the risk modulating factors among young women. The data source was a cross-sectional population based sample of 1488 women aged 18 35 years in a university community. Self-administered socio-demographic and female genital hygiene practices questionnaire were used to survey the...