As a primary health care giver Dr Ashonda Washington has had first-hand experiences of women and girls who are unaware of what the menstrual cycle really is about and how they are sometimes shamed because of the myths surrounding it.
As a child, Dr Washington said she herself was confused at times and she recalled that while she was boarding at President’s College many of her peers had the same experience. Over the years, she has been giving information to her patients but now she wants to take it to a broader level and has launched the Menstrual Awareness Campaign which focuses on period education. In the future she hopes to launch a non-profit organisation called Partners in Health that will encompass sexual and reproductive health.
