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More women opting for safe menstrual practices, NFHS-5 data shows -Ashmita Sengupta, Pubali Bhattacharya and Shristi Guha

-Down to Earth The percentage of women using safe menstrual products highest in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (98.9%); least in Bihar at 58.8% The percentage of women using sanitary products and practising hygiene during menstrual cycle increased across states and Union territories in the past decade-and-a-half, first phase of the recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) has found. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa and Telangana were among the states and UTs having the highest percentage of women using menstrual hygiene products, as of 2019-2020. At 58.8 per cent, the rate of women using safe menstrual products was the least in Bihar. The percentage of women opting for hygienic practices, however, increased by nearly 30 percentage points in five years in the state. Nearly the entire female population, at 98.9 per cent, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands used hygienic products during their menstrual cycles, as of 2019-2020, according to the survey results. The NFHS, since its fourth round (2015-16), has been asking women aged between 15 and 24 years whether they used different methods of protection during  their menstrual period. These include cloth, locally prepared napkins, sanitary napkins, tampons, other methods or no product at all. Please click here to read more.