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Menstrual health is the gateway to promoting sexual and reproductive health rights, building body autonomy and self-efficacy, elevating women’s leadership, and improving health literacy. However, its full potential has not been recognised by global leaders, and menstrual health has been omitted from key global conventions. It has been 29 years since the International Conference on Population and Development (1994) acknowledged that sexual and reproductive health is an essential human right. Yet, as global health leaders convene in New York this month for the 78th United Nations General Assembly, there is still a lack of commitment to driving meaningful change by prioritising menstrual health1 (including menstrual disorders, perimenopause, and menopause). If governments were encouraged by global treaties and targets to enact menstrual health policies, it would empower women, adolescent girls, and people who menstruate. This could result in them being able to fully contribute to a he

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