{"id":2930,"date":"2025-08-25T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2930"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:31:36","slug":"ending-menstrual-stigma-among-rwandan-schoolgirls","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/ending-menstrual-stigma-among-rwandan-schoolgirls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Menstrual Stigma Among Rwandan Schoolgirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior New Voices and 2025 Advanced Advocacy Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/our_fellows\/andre-ndayambaje\/\">Andr\u00e9 Ndayambaje<\/a>, who is a midwife and health services coordinator, draws from his rural upbringing and memories of his sisters bearing shame in silence in this op-ed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His study with the Rwanda Association of Midwives shows that only approximately 4.2% of rural girls have easy access to sanitary products, compared to 88.4% in urban areas. He calls for ending menstrual stigma among Rwandan schoolgirls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read it below.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2963,"template":"","publication_category":[49],"publication_theme":[67,66],"class_list":["post-2930","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-oped","publication_theme-sexual-and-reproductive-health","publication_theme-women-and-girls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}