Menstrual health, food insecurity, and protection vulnerability among adolescent girls in internally displaced persons camps in Benue State, Nigeria: A focused ethnographic study

Adolescent girls living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps manage menstruation amid food insecurity, inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), disrupted education, gendered social norms and protection systems. These challenges are often addressed through separate humanitarian programmes, obscuring how they interact in girls everyday lives. This study explored menstrual-health experiences and perceived nutritional deprivation among adolescent girls in five IDP camps in Benue State, Nigeria. We conducted a focused ethnographic qualitative study in the International Market, Mega,

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