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menstrual health essential gender equity wellbeing women girls qualitative research described burden poor menstrual health health education however impacts quantified curtailing investment adolescent menstrual experiences health cohort amehc study aims describe menstrual health trajectories across adolescence quantify relationships menstrual health girls health education khulna bangladesh amehc prospective longitudinal cohort 2016 adolescent girls recruited commencement class 6 secondary school mean age12 across 101 schools selected proportional random sampling approach year cohort asked complete survey capturing 1 girls menstrual health experiences 2 support menstrual health 3 health education outcomes survey questions refined qualitative research cognitive interviews pilot survey year preceding cohort girls guardians surveyed baseline wave 2 capture perspectives household demographics annual assessments capture schools water sanitation hygiene support menstruation collect data participants education including school attendance performance maths literacy cohort enrolment baseline survey commenced february 2023 followup waves scheduled 2024 2025 2026 plans extension nested subcohort follow 406 postmenarche girls 2month intervals throughout 2023 may august october describe changes across menstrual periods protocol outlines priori hypotheses regarding impacts menstrual health tested cohort amehc ethical approval alfred hospital ethics committee 36922 brac james p grant school public health institutional review board irb06 july 22024 study materials outputs available open access peerreviewed publication study web pages