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B-SCAN has officially launched the Safe and Accessible Sanitary Product Innovation Competition—a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming menstrual hygiene management for women with severe disabilities. This unique competition is being organized in collaboration with WaterAid Bangladesh, a leading international nonprofit focused on improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in developing countries, with support from Kimberly-Clark. The competition calls for innovative, accessible, and sustainable solutions in sanitary product design and production—solutions that cater specifically to the needs of women with disabilities,...

B-SCAN organized a roundtable discussion in collaboration with icddr,b on the findings of the study titled 'Nationwide assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and incontinence situation of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh at the Daily Star Centre, Dhaka on 18 Nov, 2023. The population-based cross-sectional study, conducted from November 2022 to October 2023, covered all eight divisions of and 32 districts of Bangladesh. It involved screening a total of 17,577 individuals from 6,457 urban and rural...