On 25th February 2020, the Scottish Parliament passed a bill to provide free sanitary products to women of all ages. With Scotland as the forerunner in the race to eradicate "period poverty", it is ...

Several years ago, when Helen Yenser was a senior at Oakwood School, a private K-12 school in North Hollywood, she stood up in front of her class and talked about menstruating. “After I gave my ...

Sushumlata Kushwaha, a visionary postgraduate and 'Pad Wali Mukhiya' from Dawan panchayat, is making waves in Bhojpur's approach to menstrual health. By launching a semi-automatic sanitary pad machine ...

File photo of Rajasthan University. JAIPUR: In a new initiative by the Rajasthan University (RU) administration, two sanitary pad vending machines and incinerators were placed at two girls’ hostels in ...

In a step aimed at promoting menstrual hygiene, the Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation (GMC) is all set to install sanitary pad vending machines at public toilets located around offices and commercial ...

Birgunj Metropolitan City has started installing sanitary pad machines at community schools of the city in Parsa. “As girls tend to leave their studies in the middle due to monthly-cycle-related ...

The railways has assigned Nav Astitva Foundation, an NGO working on menstrual health and hygiene, to install the sanitary pad vending machine in the women washroom on platform number 1 of Patna ...