---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abha Khetarpal <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:36:00 +0530 Subject: {Disability Studies India} Going With The Flow; Menstrual Management & Hygiene for Women With Disabilities To:
Across the world’s largest democracy, millions of women still are held back by shame around their most basic sanitary needs. According to WHO, India accounts for 27 percent of the world’s cervical cancer deaths. The incidence rate here is almost twice the global average, and doctors say that the basic reason behind this is poor menstrual hygiene. The number of women with disabilities in reproductive age in India is approximately around 35 to 40 million. Gynecologic health care of women with disabilities has to be a comprehensive one. They are as likely sexually active as other teenagers or women without disabilities but are at greater risk for forced sexual encounters. They are more likely to live in poverty, due to lack of education and employment. They need appropriate education on hygiene, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and abuse prevention measures. All this made me write 'Going With The Flow', a handbook on Menstrual Management & Hygiene for Women with Disabilities as written or educational material catering to such needs is all together missing in our country. It also contains pictures to make it simpler for women with intellectual disabilities and also tips for mothers and care givers. The book is available in English as well as in Hindi in the form of print version and as well as an accessible e-book **(Also available on Google Play Bookshttps:// play.google.com/store/books/details/Abha_Khetarpal_GOING_WITH_THE_FLOW?id=ePmRCgAAQBAJ ). *For women with disabilities, the book is free of cost. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ जीवन की सबसे बड़ी प्राकृतिक प्रक्रिया होने के बावजूद, मासिक धर्म नि:शक्त युवतियों और महिलाओं के लिए एक कठिनाई का कारण है; उनके लिए एक मुसीबत है. हमारे देश में लाखों लड़कियाँ और महिलाएं शारीरिक तथा मासिक चुनौतियों का सामना कर रही हैं. लेकिन अपनी असमर्थता और बेहतर सुविधाओं की कमी के कारण इन दिनों उन्हें बेहद मुश्किल से गुज़रना पड़ता है. जानकारी का आभाव, अप्राप्य साधन और आय में कमी के कारण बहुत सी दिक्कतो को झेलना पड़ता है. मेरी यह पुस्तक, ' गोइंग विद द फ्लो', निःशक्त महिलाओं के मासिक धर्म प्रबंधन एवं स्वच्छ्ता हेतु जानकारी उपलब्ध करवाती है क्योंकि युवा महिलाओं और किशोरियों की परेशानियों और ज़रूरतों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करने के लिए कहीं भी लिखित रूप में कोई शैक्षिक सामग्री मौजूद नहीं है. **(यह गूगल प्ले स्टोर पर भी उपलब्ध है. https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Abha_Khetarpal_GOING_WITH_THE_FLOW?id=rTySCgAAQBAJ ) *यह पुस्तक निःशक्त महिलाओं के लिए मुफ्त में उपलब्ध है. * -- *Abha Khetarpal* *President* *Cross the Hurdles* *www.crossthehurdles.org/ngo <http://www.crossthehurdles.org>Counselor for the students with disabilitiesUniversity College of Medical Sciences, (UCMS) & GTB HospitalDelhiNon-institutional expert, Equality and Diversity Committee, Enabling Unit, UCMS & GTBH* * Principal Counselor/Founderwww.crossthehurdles.org <http://www.crossthehurdles.org>Personal websitewww.abhakhetarpal.in <http://www.abhakhetarpal.in>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
