4th year Anthropology Ph.D. student Younus Mushtaq Ahmed’s op-ed “Protecting India’s Sanitation Workers: Addressing Period Taboos in Menstrual Waste Management” was recently published with BMJ GH Blogs (Jun. 2024)
“Sanitation workers play a key role in the collection and transportation of menstrual waste in India’s urban municipalities. However, taboos around menstruation hinder their task, harm their health, and limit the public’s access to information on proper menstrual waste disposal practices...”
