1,851
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Scholarship - Empirical

Blood flows: mapping journeys of menstrual waste in Blantyre, Malawi

ORCID Icon, , , ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon show all
Pages 738-751 | Received 03 Nov 2020, Accepted 24 Mar 2021, Published online: 17 May 2021

References

  • Belayneh, Z. and Mekuriaw, B., 2019. Knowledge and menstrual hygiene practice among adolescent school girls in southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC public health, 19 (1), 1595. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7973-9.
  • Berendes, D.M., Sumner, T.A., and Brown, J.M., 2017. Safely managed sanitation for all means fecal sludge management for at least 1.8 billion people in low and middle income countries. Environmental science & technology, 51 (5), 3074–3083. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b06019.
  • Bobel, C., 2018. The managed body: developing girls and menstrual health in the global South. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chidziwisano, K., Tilley, E., and Morse, T., 2020. Self-reported versus observed measures: validation of child caregiver food hygiene practices in rural Malawi. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17 (12), 4498. doi:10.3390/ijerph17124498.
  • Chinyama, J., et al., 2019. Menstrual hygiene management in rural schools of Zambia: a descriptive study of knowledge, experiences and challenges faced by schoolgirls. BMC public health, 19 (1), 16. doi:10.1186/s12889-018-6360-2.
  • Chipeta, W.C., et al., 2017. Designing local solutions for emptying pit latrines in low-income urban settlements (Malawi). Physics and chemistry of the Earth, parts A/B/C, 100, 336–342. doi:10.1016/j.pce.2017.02.012
  • Chunga, R.M., et al., 2016. Adopt or adapt: sanitation technology choices in urbanizing Malawi. PloS one, 11 (8), e0161262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161262.
  • Crankshaw, T.L., Strauss, M., and Gumede, B., 2020. Menstrual health management and schooling experience amongst female learners in Gauteng, South Africa: a mixed method study. Reproductive health, 17, 1–15. doi:10.1186/s12978-020-0896-1
  • García-Pérez, M.A. and Núñez-Antón, V.V., 2003. cellwise residual analysis in two-way contingency tables. Educational and psychological measurement, 63 (5), 825–839. doi:10.1177/0013164403251280.
  • Hennegan, J., et al., 2017. A qualitative understanding of the effects of reusable sanitary pads and puberty education: implications for future research and practice. Reproductive health, 14 (1), 78. doi:10.1186/s12978-017-0339-9.
  • Hennegan, J., et al., 2020. ‘I do what a woman should do’: a grounded theory study of women’s menstrual experiences at work in Mukono District, Uganda. BMJ global health, 5 (11), e003433. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003433.
  • Hennegan, J. and Montgomery, P., 2016. Do menstrual hygiene management interventions improve education and psychosocial outcomes for women and girls in low and middle income countries? A systematic review. PloS one, 11 (2), e0146985. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146985.
  • Hoffman, J.I.E., 2019. Categorical and cross-classified data: goodness of fit and association. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press.
  • Holm, S., 1979. A simple sequentially rejective multiple test procedure. Scandinavian journal of statistics, 6 (2), 65–70.
  • Kaur, R., Kaur, K., and Kaur, R., 2018. Menstrual hygiene, management, and waste disposal: practices and challenges faced by girls/women of developing countries. Journal of environmental and public health, 2018, 1–9. doi:10.1155/2018/1730964
  • Moffat, N. and Pickering, L., 2019. ‘Out of order’: the double burden of menstrual etiquette and the subtle exclusion of women from public space in Scotland. The sociological review, 67 (4), 766–787. doi:10.1177/0038026119854253.
  • National Statistical Office, 2019. 2018 Malawi population and housing census report. Government of Malawi.
  • Nawaz, J., et al., 2010. Oxfam experience of providing screened toilet, bathing and menstruation units in its earthquake response in Pakistan. Gender and development, 18 (1), 81–86. doi:10.1080/13552071003600067.
  • Roxburgh, H., et al., 2020. Power, danger, and secrecy—a socio-cultural examination of menstrual waste management in urban Malawi. Plos one, 15 (6), e0235339. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235339.
  • Roxburgh, H., et al. 2020b. Menstrual waste generation and management in urban Malawi [Dataset]. University of Stirling, Faculty of Natural Sciences. http://hdl.handle.net/11667/162.
  • Scorgie, F., et al., 2016. “Bitten by shyness”: menstrual hygiene management, sanitation, and the quest for privacy in South Africa. Medical anthropology, 35 (2), 161–176. doi:10.1080/01459740.2015.1094067.
  • Scott, L., et al., 2013. Sanitary pad: acceptability and sustainability study.
  • Shannon, A.K., Melendez-Torres, G.J., and Hennegan, J., 2020. How do women and girls experience menstrual health interventions in low-and middle-income countries? Insights from a systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis. Culture, Health and sexuality, 1–20. doi:10.1080/13691058.2020.1718758.
  • Sisco, T., et al., 2017. Trash removal methods for improved mechanical emptying of pit latrines using a screw auger. Journal of water, sanitation and hygiene for development, 7 (1), 85–91. doi:10.2166/washdev.2017.106.
  • Still, D. and Foxon, K., 2012. Tackling the challenges of full pit latrines, volume 2: how fast do pit toilets fill up? A scientific understanding of sludge build up and accumulation in pit latrines. In: Water Research Commission, ed. Tackling the challenges of full pit latrines. Pretoria: WRC, 42.
  • Strande, L. and Brdjanovic, D., Eds., 2014. Faecal sludge management: systems approach for implementation and operation. London: IWA publishing.
  • Tembo, J.M., et al., 2019. Pit latrine faecal sludge solid waste quantification and characterization to inform the design of treatment facilities in peri-urban areas: a case study of Kanyama. African journal of environmental science and technology, 13 (7), 260–272. doi:10.5897/AJEST2019.2694.
  • Tilley, E., Bieri, S., and Kohler, P., 2013. Sanitation in developing countries: a review through a gender lens. Journal of water, sanitation and hygiene for development, 3 (3), 298–314. doi:10.2166/washdev.2013.090.
  • Van Eijk, A.M., et al., 2019. Menstrual cup use, leakage, acceptability, safety, and availability: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The lancet public health, 4 (8), e376–e393. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30111-2.
  • Wilkins, D., 2019, Treemapify: draw Treemaps in ‘ggplot2ʹ. R package version 2.5.3.
  • Wiseman, P., 2019. Lifting the lid: disabled toilets as sites of belonging and embodied citizenship. The sociological review, 67 (4), 788–806. doi:10.1177/0038026119854255.