Even in the #UnitedStates, where 20 states tax pads and tampons as nonessential, luxury items, one study found that nearly a quarter of teenage girls struggle to afford #MenstrualProducts. 2/2
#MenstrualTaboo #MenstrualDignity #WomenHealth
For millions of girls across Africa and Asia today, #Menstruation means staying home from school. Often, owing to a lack of #PeriodProducts, these girls miss up to a week of class every month.
For their families, pads are too expensive, too difficult to access or too taboo to prioritize over other needs. 1/2
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/opinion/girls-school-menstruation.html
#MenstrualCups may result in fewer infections and improve #VaginalHealth, a new trial led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine shows.
Researchers from LSTM, in collaboration with researchers in Kenya and the USA, have been investigating options for girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries to manage #Menstruation with comfort and dignity and to improve health outcomes.
#MenstrualDignity #PeriodDignity
#MenstrualHealth #MenstrualHygieneManagement
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