Access to Sanitary Pads Services and Academic Performance of Girls Students in Public day Schools in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania

Yacob, Herry (2019) Access to Sanitary Pads Services and Academic Performance of Girls Students in Public day Schools in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study explored the effects of lack of sanitary pads services to the academic performance of girl’s students in day secondary’s, in seven public day schools found in five wards in Morogoro Municipality. It seeks to find out the awareness of girls students on reproductive health and menstruation period sanitation in particular, to investigate the accessibility of sanitary pads in terms of purchasing power, to examine the attendance of girls as compared to boys at school per month and to examine overall girls performance in terms of missing assessments due to menstruation period in public day secondary schools in Morogoro municipality. 122 people responded; 7 heads of schools, 22 female teachers, and 93 girls students. This study was carried out using descriptive survey research design. Descriptive survey design was appropriate for this study because it enabled the researcher to collect information concerning, how lack of sanitary pads services to girls affected their academic performance in day public secondary schools in Morogoro municipality. The researcher drew conclusions from the findings of the study, which were crucial in narrowing the knowledge gap by providing information on day public secondary schools in Morogoro municipality. The findings of the study indicated that girl’s students, in our public day secondary schools in Morogoro municipal are aware on reproductive health and menstruation period sanitation specifically; but it indicated that there is a big challenge on the sanitary pads accessibility; on the girls students school attendance compared to boys there were difference since girls miss attending to school for some days in a month, and hence the overall academic performance of most of the girls students in public day schools are poor, due to the fact that there some days they were missing schools due to menstruation periods.

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