 Executive Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health and Social Development for Teema Odu-Shote has called on the federal government to put measures in place to make menstrual hygiene materials readily accessible. Odu-Shote will serve this in a budget article commemorate the 2022 menstrual hygiene day, with the theme making menstruation a normal, factive life by 2030, said its imperative for the government to provide sustainable access to water and sanitation for proper menstrual management for girls and women. Matriotic of every year is a deset aside to highlight the importance of menstruation and proper menstrual hygiene management for every girl and woman irrespective of their location and also to highlight the need to address the common myths surrounding menstruation and break the silence and shame on menstruation. We are now being joined by Abosa De Ochupe, a child rights advocate. Glad to have you. Yeah, good evening. Good evening. We apologize for the stress we had put you through in the course of fixing our rodeo. Thank you for your patience. Now, menstruation meets surrounding menstruation for girls and women. Why does it look like there is so much, there are a lot of myths surrounding menstruation for girls and women? The question I think is that menstruation is a normal phenomenon, a normal girl's child or a woman who is actually menstruating because it is the same of the myth, it is the same of the myth of... Okay, now, I think that the earlier we start talking to the girl child and sometimes even the boy child about menstruation, the better and the easier it is for us to get over these myths. When is the best age, what age is the best time to start educating children about menstruation and some of the other physical changes in the body of a girl or even a boy? Yeah, well, I would say that for a girl child, if I'm talking to a girl, I think it's 5. If I'm talking to a boy and a girl... Age 5, you want to suggest age 5? Yeah, you can suggest age 5. Okay, now I'm also going to ask you, between the mother and the father, who is in a better position to address issues of menstruation with a girl? Well, you know, as a doctor, you know, it's not easy at all. Because, yeah, I tell you, it's a tough thing to do. I tell you, I've done this before. The way you are young, I think it's tough for young menstruation. So it's easy for you to talk to a girl child as a woman. Yeah. But there will be a better man, so talking to a girl is generally... Some women still find it embarrassing that they menstruate. Are you aware of that? Why should a grown-up woman... Carry on. Carry on. Carry on. I remember when I was a friend of mine, we were looking after why something happened because I see about our boys that I moved to an educated adult. I do. I was born and raised. Okay. So we'll find a word on the meets around menstruation. How do you want to help people out there? Women and even men who still find it difficult to come to terms with the reality of menstruation in girls and women. How do you want to help them overcome the... get over these meets? Well, I'm going to say thank you. All of us here, I'm going to say thank you for talking about menstruation. We cannot just say thank you. We cannot just say thank you for talking about menstruation because it's tough for us to say thank you for talking about menstruation. And I also want to say thank you for not only talking about... we need to stop the stigma and stop the morphine. And we can't let them go because one thing is this. When a girl starts to go out on a girl's menstruation, women, men and women are less... Thank you very much. This is Abbas Adeel-Tukwa. Thank you for joining us on our Pram term near tonight. We appreciate your presence and patience. Hopefully we'll get back to you in coming days or weeks if we have to reach you again on sensitive issues like this. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.