A home-maker in Gilaula village of Shravasti, 30-year-old Khushboo had chafed thighs from using low-quality sanitary pads available near her house. During the lockdown, even that was not available and ...

Across rural and tribal India, millions of women and girls still manage menstruation without safe products, accurate information or community support. And the barriers are rarely technological.

Seamstress Fadilah Ali, who has 15 years of experience sewing traditional and modern garments, now plans to make and sell her own line of affordable and reusable sanitary pads. The idea emerged when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered what has been described as a “sanitary pad crisis” in India. Priya, a 14-year-old ...

In recent times, Adivasi customs related to menstrual hygiene have come under scrutiny in the erstwhile undivided Adilabad district, but researchers have confined their studies to the ‘what’ of ...

As co-director of Amrita SeRVe, a project of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, an NGO with consultative status to the UN’s ECOSOC, Anju Bist has travelled to the most backward village clusters in 20 ...

Young women have brought about a change in the mindset of men and women in rural Assam when it comes to menstrual hygiene, and have steered women towards better hygiene with reusable cloth pads. A ...

Technology and innovations allow women several choices of menstrual pads as a period strikes each month. Thickness, length, wings and even scent, sanitary napkins come in a variety levels of comfort.

Menstruation is a natural phenomenon, but cultural and political factors make it only the woman and girl’s burden. Menstruation has been mystified, commercialized and used as tools of oppression in ...

Periods are expensive. An estimated 70% of women use tampons or pads at an average cost of $7.99 per box, and they need to be changed every few hours, lest they start to leak or smell or, in extremely ...

For women living without access to basic sanitation, menstruation can be especially challenging. Their resourcefulness knows no bounds All photographs courtesy of WaterAid From animal skins and old ...