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0253/2025 - CHALLENGES TO MENSTRUAL PRACTICES IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MENSTRUAL HEALTH PROTECTION AND PROMOTION PROGRAM
DESAFIOS ÀS PRÁTICAS MENSTRUAIS NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE DO PROGRAMA DE PROTEÇÃO E PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE MENSTRUAL

Author:

• Natália da Silva Gomes - Gomes, NS - <nataliasilvag_@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6952-7172

Co-author(s):

• Michelle Brugnera Cruz Cechin - Cechin, MBC - <mibrugnera@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-473X
• Caroline Luiza Willig - Willig, CL - <acarolineluiza@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6133-4835
• Lucas Barros dos Santos - Santos, LB - <lucas.barros@arapiraca@ufal.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4719-598X
• Beatriz Fioretti-Foschi - Fioretti-Foschi, B - <bfioretti.foschi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1904-9376
• Letícia Becker Vieira - Vieira, LB - <lebvieira@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5850-7814
• Cristianne Maria Famer Rocha - Rocha, CMF - <cristianne.rocha@ufrgs.br>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-2911


Abstract:

The objective was to reflect on the Menstrual Health Protection and Promotion Program, based on the challenges related to the right to menstruate in Brazil. This is a reflective study that addresses the advances and setbacks of menstrual practices in the country. The findings were divided into three categories: “The sanitary pad as a path to truth and life”, “The menstrual precariousness and/or poverty” and “Education and Health: two pillars of menstrual dignity”. It was identified that it is necessary to develop jointly constructed public policies, addressing menstrual health and education, because the trajectory of menstruating people is still linked to challenges and barriers, where social and cultural rights are not guaranteed, relying only on the free distribution of sanitary pads. In this way, the importance of the Program that is the subject of the study is highlighted, but the need for a more comprehensive approach is highlighted to mitigate this problem, respecting the particularities of the social actors who experience menstrual precariousness.

Keywords:

Menstruation, Menstrual Cycle, Health Policy

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Gomes, NS, Cechin, MBC, Willig, CL, Santos, LB, Fioretti-Foschi, B, Vieira, LB, Rocha, CMF. CHALLENGES TO MENSTRUAL PRACTICES IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MENSTRUAL HEALTH PROTECTION AND PROMOTION PROGRAM. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Jul). [Citado em 05/12/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/challenges-to-menstrual-practices-in-brazil-an-analysis-of-the-menstrual-health-protection-and-promotion-program/19729



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