News June 28, 2024 SHF Executive Director joins the International Gender Champion network Gender equality is at the core of SHF’s mission. While lack of access to sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health disproportionately...
News June 27, 2024 SHF Board welcomes sustained efforts to increase investment and financing to create thriving sanitation economies and menstrual health markets At the 8th Board meeting, that took place in Washington D.C., members acknowledged the depth and breadth of efforts to drive national...
Story June 25, 2024 Global standards for menstrual products and why they matter As experts meet in Copenhagen this week to participate in the ongoing global standards development process for menstrual products, we...
News June 21, 2024 SHF joins 2X Global to catalyze investments toward sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health in LMICs, critical to achieving gender equality The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) is pleased to join 2X Global, the leading membership and field-building organisation for...
News May 28, 2024 SHF talks about investment in menstrual health markets on SDC podcast Invited to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) Empower! Podcast, SHF talks about the investment potential of...
Story May 17, 2024 “Curing diseases starts with sanitation and hygiene” - An Interview with Uganda’s Health Commissioner, Dr Herbert Nabaasa As Uganda prepares to unlock an additional USD 1.5 million for sanitation alongside its Health National Adaptation Plan (HNAP), SHF...
Story May 16, 2024 Better health is in our hands In this article published on 15 May 2024 in Uganda's Daily Monitor, Dr Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Uganda...
Story April 25, 2024 2023 in Review: SHF's Annual Report looks back at year of scaling up solutions, partnerships and impact for people, economies and the planet SHF released this week its second Annual Report titled ‘Building Sanitation Economies and Menstrual Health Markets for a Sustainable...
News April 16, 2024 Untapped sanitation economies worth almost USD 19 billion in five African countries alone Market assessments commissioned by the UN’s SHF confirm investment in national sanitation economies could unlock significant economic...
News January 11, 2024 Investment in Menstrual Health, a win-win-win for women, economies and the environment Transforming the menstrual hygiene marketplace, with an estimated size of 1.8 billion people globally, will change the trajectory of...
News December 18, 2023 Investment in Menstrual Health and Hygiene offers promising potential for impact With 1.8 billion people menstruating around the world every month, access to menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is critical to their...
News August 22, 2023 SHF Statement on 2023 JMP Report The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) welcomes the latest progress report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water...