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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...