May 05, 2025
May 28th: International Day of Action for Women’s Health and for Menstruation
Since 1987, the International Day of Action for Women's Health is celebrated worldwide on May 28. According to the motto "Our health, our rights, our lives", this International Day of Action draws attention to the health and rights of women worldwide and focuses on the mental and physical health of women, but also to violence against women. Various organizations and associations use this occasion to raise public awareness and at the same time call on people to take action and stand up for themselves and other women. A good reason to take a look at the women's health portal (website in German) of the Federal Institute of Public Health, for example!
But did you also know that May 28 is also the International Menstruation (Hygiene) Day? The date is no coincidence: the average duration of a menstrual cycle is 28 days and May, as the fifth month of the year, represents the average five-day menstruation. Associations such as the Endometriosis Association Germany (website in German), but also many international organizations, celebrate this day with campaigns to raise awareness about menstruation, menstrual poverty and menstrual capitalism, but also menstrual health. We are taking this day as an opportunity to once again draw attention to the offer of free hygiene products for menstruation, which we installed at our faculty around a year ago: dispensers for the free distribution of tampons and sanitary towels have been installed in eight buildings, where possible in barrier-free accessible toilet rooms. You can find the dispensers in the following buildings near teaching rooms:
- Institute of Forensic Medicine (Building 13, Room 106a)
- Biulding 14 (Room 204a)
- Clinic for Anesthesiology (Building 19, Room 1.125)
- University Dentistry (Building 28, Room 239)
- Dean's Office (Building 40, Room 101)
- MTZ (Building 91, Room D.00.047 and D.00.051)
- Outpatient clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry in the "Blase" next to MITZ (Building 105, Room 1.253)
- Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine (Building 106, Room 086).
