First menstruation is often accompanied by fear, shame, lack of information, women and girls in Arab states reveal

UNITED NATIONS, Cairo –“I felt ashamed of my body. I did not know how to clean it or how to take care of it. I did not understand the purpose of my menstrual cycle because I did not receive any sexual health information at that age,” one young woman from Palestine, recalling her first period at age 12. “I felt heavy and helpless at that time every month, for years to follow. It wasn ' t until very much later, when I was in my twenties, that things seemed to make more sense. ”This woman ’s experience is all too common across the Arab states region.
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