Volume: 1 Issue: 1
Year: 2025, Page: 37-44,
Received: May 28, 2025 Accepted: Sept. 20, 2025 Published: Sept. 28, 2025
Addressing menstrual health in India requires confronting a critical reality: the current ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach fundamentally fails diverse lived experiences. This failure stems from a dangerous knowledge gap, driven by interconnected factors: historical biases in medical research often excluding female experiences, the erosion of valuable traditional wisdom, and unchecked commercial pressures pushing inadequate, generic solutions. These issues collectively prevent recognising that women bleed differently and result in standard approaches and products that are often unsuitable. Drawing insights from extensive conversations with hundreds of individuals, mostly women and supporting data, this article details this multifaceted crisis. It presents Ruyii, an integrated community approach, as a necessary solution. Ruyii directly counters the problem by valuing lived reality, fostering peer support, and synthesising diverse expert insights (across traditional and modern domains) to offer personalised, culturally relevant care. Built on valuing every individual's journey and diverse knowledge, this community space is envisioned to eventually scale using a technology platform (FEMTEC) to empower individuals and transform menstrual health nationwide.
Keywords: Holistic Menstrual Healthcare, Traditional Menstrual Practices, Menstrual Health Knowledge Gap, Integrated Community Approach, Personalized Menstrual Care
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