International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 14 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Ritu Mahendru

“The door has opened”: moving forward with menstrual health programming in Bangladesh

Siobhan Warrington, Mimi Coultas, Mitali Das, Effat Nur

In Bangladesh, as elsewhere, menstruation is surrounded by stigma, silence, and shame. Despite being a critical part of women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and…

Knowledge and practice regarding menstrual hygiene management among the Rohingya refugee adolescent girls in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: a mixed method study

Shagoofa Rakhshanda, Sahlil Ahmed, Samuel Saidu, Christine Nderitu, Basanta Thapa, Abdul Awal, Nadia Farnaz, Atiya Rahman, Bachera Aktar, A.S.G. Faruque

About half of the 16% adolescents in the world experience menstruation. Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is a health concern and challenge especially in humanitarian situations…

RHCC intervention: strengthening the delivery and coverage of sexual and reproductive health care during floods in Bangladesh

Nibedita Shankar Ray-Bennett, Denise Marsha Jeanor Corsel, Nimisha Goswami, Maqbul Hossain Bhuiyan

The quality and availability of sexual and reproductive health care are key determinants to reducing maternal mortalities and morbidities in disaster settings; yet, these services…

Challenges in combatting female genital mutilation: narratives of black Sub-Saharan African (BSSA) women in the English west Midlands region

Mathew Nyashanu, Maureen Mguni

It is believed that more than 120 million women have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and more than 2 million young girls are at risk of undergoing FGM. FGM is practiced…

“We couldn’t talk to her”: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of UK midwives when navigating women’s care without language

Laura Bridle, Sam Bassett, Sergio A. Silverio

Women with little-to-no English continue to have poor birth outcomes and low service user satisfaction. When language support services are used it enhances the relationship…

Failing the rights: sexual vulnerability, access to services and barriers to contraceptives among adolescents in Narok County, Kenya

Griffins Manguro, Jefferson Mwaisaka, Dan Okoro, Kigen Korir, Patricia Owira, Gerald Githinji, Ademola Olajide, Marleen Temmerman

Around one in five girls in Kenya, aged 15 to 19 years old are either pregnant or have given birth. Of 47 counties, adolescent pregnancy is highest in Narok, where about 40% of…

A framework proposal for digital interventions in perinatal education: the result of a content analysis to WHO intra-partum care recommendations

Carla V. Leite, Ana Margarida Almeida

This research proposes a framework to guide the development and analysis of digital interventions, namely, through mobile applications, regarding labor and birth. By complying…