Sanitary products are the fifth most common type of ... However, there was an alarming message behind the image. The Women’s Environmental Network estimate that there around nine plastic ...

Free sanitary products will be offered to girls in all ... has suggested almost a third of 11 to 21-year-old girls and young women have missed school or college because of their period.

Proceeds from the bags go to purchasing essential sanitary products like sanitary pads, soaps, combs, and body creams that are given to women in shelters like Tri-Valley Haven and Shepherd's Gate.

However, after the government increased taxes on sanitary products, a packet of pads now costs 20 cedis, pushing them out of her reach. The price rises caused women to protest outside Ghana's ...

Major sanitary pad makers in China are apologising after being accused of selling pads that are shorter than advertised. It comes amid a storm of anger after viral social media videos showed ...

And periods can and do (regularly) arrive unexpectedly, even when we’re at work – in fact, 86% of women have started their periods without having any sanitary products to hand. The truth is ...

In India, one in 10 girls below the age of 21 cannot afford sanitary products and use unhygienic substitutes. A study from 2016 showed that only 36% of the 355 million menstruating women use sanitary ...

One female employee of Unicharm reportedly had to "rush to the convenience store to buy sanitary products" when she got her period on the day of the exam. Therefore, in an effort to support female ...

A survey on “period poverty” by the health ministry found that 8 percent of women in Japan had experienced difficulties acquiring menstrual sanitary products due to financial reasons since ...

Though inmates are supplied with napkins under govt scheme, women in many prisons choose to purchase sanitary products from the prison canteens. Sometimes they ask their families for sanitary pads ...