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 ...

This lack of access to period products is often referred to as ‘period poverty’ and there is low awareness of its global prevalence. It can lead to missing school, confidence-building ...

According to data collected in 2016, 95% of girls in Ghana occasionally miss school because of period poverty. In Uganda, 28% of girls are absent from school during their period according to data ...

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 ...

“Period poverty forces many girls to drop out of ... with the biological and emotional demands of marriage. The grim statistics in Tana County tell a troubling story. Among its 315,000 residents ...

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 ...

She’d made eradicating period poverty her mission after reading a BBC article one morning. “It was about a charity called Freedom4Girls that provides menstrual products to schoolgirls in Kenya ...

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 ...

Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and ... population was living in poverty in the second half of 2022, an increase from the 37.3% recorded during the same period of 2021 The most ...