Each day has 800 million women, children and trans people, menstruating. Currently, it is estimated that 26% of the global female population is in the reproductive oath according to Unicef, and one person who has had menstruation for less than 7 years of his menstrual period continues to die.
A survey conducted by WASH United, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS) and Unicef, revealed that one of the four men who menstruated between the ages of 13 and 35 declared that they had the most difficulty managing their menstrual period since the COVID-19. Ina Jurga, the International Coordinator of Global Menstrual Hygiene Day, said in a statement that 47% of these people had severe difficulties in accessing menstrual periods during the pandemic.
Different from men, women wear one in my step through a biological process: menstruation. Hygienic towels, tampons, menstrual cups, ropa interior special, the options are varied, and without embarrassment access is not universal; and in many cases they do not consider themselves a basic necessity. A clear example of this was the aid to the canvases of the Chilean governor during the quarantine of the past year. Various feminist groups and women are taking part in a social media campaign, criticizing the government: “In cuarentena seguimos menstruando”.
Before the pandemic, in different places the podium will be used for this physiological process. Despite the fact that many people were killed, the need was not diminished, because all the organizations in the world were coordinated to help and integrate products, to reduce the number of people needed by COVID-19. Many individuals have lost ground, have difficulties in accessing basic necessities and include standing in a hurry; and some of them, while menstruating.
Currently, these people have to procure their own products, but they do not have the necessary resources. According to The State of the Period, a document made by Thinx & PERIOD, one in five teenagers has tenida problems to pay for menstrual products or simply can not be compared, and this is the antidote to the pandemic, which is the subject of much more debate about menstrual poverty and the difficult access to these products by the population.
Grace Meng, part of the United States Congressional Assembly representing New York District 6, declared in May 2020 that “menstrual equality is not an election. It is a human right, a right to health. Unlike the COVD-19, menstruation is not as important. Today, with more than 40 million people in labor working to prevent the pandemic, the socio-economic challenges and the health of the people are increasing the poverty during their menstrual period. It’s most important that there is no guarantee that all those that need these products can be obtained ”.
Difficult access by Chile
In Chile, it is estimated that more than 15,000 people are living in a cold situation, according to the Hogar de Cristo, a foundation that has been waiting for more than this since 2018. The official figure is new this year, 2012, and corresponds to the information collected by the Second Catastrophe of Persons in Situation of Calle. This archive declares that 12,255 people have no tenants living, which corresponds to 5,001 more individuals than those declared in the first version of the disaster realized in 2005.
Of this official figure, 16% are female: alrededor de 2,400. The Mayor of these women is his youth, the oath of allegiance is less than that of men in cold situations. The Mayor of these women has explained that he finds himself in this situation escaping intra-family violence, from a couple or a wife, among other reasons, as well as informing the data provided by Data Voz Statcom in his report on the people in the situation realized in 2017.
In the interviews conducted to carry out this report, it was revealed that only 35% of the women living in the coldway work, and that the total received is 36.5% more than that of men. 79% of women are interviewed without social security.
And Chile represented the total amount of 51% de la población. Last year, the Gentlemen’s Foundation launched its #MenstruarEnLaCalle campaign, which aims to sensitize people who are menstruating and living in the position of those who live during menstruation. In his position he explains that “the surgeon idea is part of the preoccupation of Carla Fernandini, Assistant Executive of the Foundation, around the social stigma that is turning in this biological process. También, preoccupation acerca de las injusticias associates al impuesto rosa que desencadena situacions como la pooren menstrueel ”.
The annual guest of an individual and menstrual products in our country carries a total of 48,000 pesos, following a project of them presented in 2019 by 30 senators, between them Isabel Allende, Guido Girardi, Yasna Provoste, Ximena Rincón and Manuel José Ossandón.
In the year 2020, it is approved by 133 votes in favor of the Chamber of Deputies of the 663rd resolution. State, in public health centers, prisons, albergues and people in call situation ”as declared the Press Room of the Chamber.