15/04/2026
Menstrual Health Equity Bill | This Is What Menstrual Health Equity Looks Like 🩸 📚 ✊
We are honoured to share with you the first-ever proposed Menstrual Health Equity Bill. The Bill is informed by the imaginative activism undertaken by our members in June 2024, first presented to Parliament in November 2024, formally launched on 26 May 2025 at our Menstrual Health Equity Summit hosted at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and further strengthened through the inputs and endorsements of organisations collectively representing more than 2 million citizens across South Africa.
We remain deeply humbled by the credible organisations, unions, and institutions of learning including schools, many with far longer histories of advancing human rights and shaping South Africa’s political landscape, that have submitted thoughtful amendments and endorsed this Bill. Their contributions reflect the diversity of citizens, sectors and thematic expertise that this Bill seeks to serve.
In case you missed our presentation to Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, we made a point of acknowledging each of you and the important role you play in strengthening our democracy and ensuring good governance.
Endorsements:
SA Federation For Mental Health, Equal Education Law Centre, Sonke Gender Justice, Rural Health Advocacy Project, South African Democratic Teachers Union, Equal Education, University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika NSRC, Abahlali Basemjondolo, South African Youth Council Centre for Human Rights, Reclaim The City (RTC), Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South African Council Of Churches, National Association of School Governing Bodies (NASGB), Sisonke S*xual & Reproductive Justice Coalition, S*x Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce, Triangle Project, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU),
USAWA for Learning and Healing, Asijiki Coalition, South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), South African Student Union (SAUS).
