The leaders of The Flow Initiative discuss period poverty, menstrual health equity, and the solutions. When Sabrina Natasha Browne runs out of menstrual hygiene products, she, like a lot of people ...

Period poverty is not just a female issue ... It’s heartbreaking.” The statistics paint a grim picture. In South Africa alone, seven million girls cannot afford or access sanitary pads ...

[Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] Every new school term in Kenya, the conversation about period poverty re-emerges, focusing on girls who miss class due to the lack of menstrual products. The most ...

The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — down from 11 percent in 2013, reflecting continued but slowing ...

Those who work to tackle period poverty said they were concerned about the potential impact of removing the service, which allows staff to order in products. Newsbeat spoke to 71 organisations ...

When visualizing a menstruating individual, the picture that usually comes to mind is one of a cisgender woman. This ...

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 ...

I was getting paid in two days, but my period wasn't going to wait." Like most issues, period poverty is not an isolated problem for women, instead tying in with complex problems around poverty, poor ...

MSPs have backed the principle of tackling period poverty by making sanitary products available to all free of charge. All parties backed a bill put forward by Labour's Monica Lennon in its first ...

But little did she know that period poverty could blight her bliss. “It was a fine day amid the jubilant atmosphere of receiving our KCPE results, I sensed some dampness in my panty. Out of ...

The number of people unable to buy sanitary products is rising as the cost of living gets higher. A new report commissioned by Girlguiding has revealed that almost a third of girls and young women ...

The financial hardships of the pandemic have brought the issue of "period poverty" to the fore in France, with the government working to make menstrual hygiene products more affordable. When a ...