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Promoting women’s health worldwide
The ICRC cares for all the victims of conflict but it adapts this care to meet their needs. Specific services for women affected by conflict include support for rape victims, medical care for women in places of detention, antenatal and postnatal care for mothers and babies, the provision of hygiene requisites/training and rehabilitation for female mine victims.

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Sri Lanka. Kiran camp for displaced persons, Batticaloa. A mother and daughter welcome the arrival of ICRC hygiene kits.

Hygiene kits generally consist of personal items such as soap, shampoo, and toothbrushes, plus general materials like laundry soap, jerrycans, mosquito nets and tarpaulins. Women are often unable to obtain their usual sanitary protection when displaced, so the kits also include culturally-appropriate sanitary towels.




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