Grade 7: Menstrual Hygiene Across the World

Feminine Hygiene Products

• The Best Menstrual Cups

• How do I use tampons, pads, period underwear, and menstrual cups?

• The History of the Sanitary Pad

• Dignity Dreams Washable Pads

• Cup Guides

• 5 Startups Changing the Way Women Think About Their Periods

• Types of absorbents used during menstruation

• Absorbant Material

• Cup Basics

• 6 Best Menstrual Cups of 2022

Above image from Nabta Health

Period Poverty

• Period Poverty in Switzerland

• Period equity: What it is and why it matters

• When pads are a luxury, getting your period means missing out on life

• Period Poverty: Everything You Need to Know

• What is period poverty (video)

• It will take a lot more than free menstrual pads to end period poverty

• 7 Statistics That Show The Startling Reality Of Period Problems Around The World

• “Making the Case for Investing in Menstrual Health and Hygiene”

• Period poverty: New Zealand schools to offer free sanitary products

• Opinion: The cost of tampons is hurting low-income girls. Let's fix that

Being Banished

• 100 Women: 'Why I fought being banished to a hut during my period'

• A Nepali teen died after she was banished to a hut for having her period

• A Girl Gets Her Period And Is Banished To The Shed: #15Girls

• The Risky Lives of Women Sent Into Exile—For Menstruating

Above image from My Republica

Arunachalam Muruganantham: India's Menstruation Man

The sanitary pad revolutionary : Arunachalam Muruganantham has helped bring cheap sanitary pads to rural India, by inventing a simple machine to make them - but it nearly cost him his marriage

Period Taboos

• Left in the dark: How period taboos put women and girls at risk
• ‘Menstruation means impurity’: multilevel interventions are needed to break the menstrual taboo in Nepal
• Why Are Tampons Taboo in Some Communities of Colour?
• Breaking taboos on sanitation
• Normalising menstruation, empowering girls
• Nearly half of women have experienced ‘period shaming’
• The Menstrual Movement
• End the stigma. Period.
• The Politics of Periods
• Menstrual Hygiene Day: Making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030
• Dismantling menstrual taboos to overcome gender inequality
• Putali Nepal – Empowerment for girls and women in nepal
• Why India must battle the shame of period stain
• Femme International

Above image from Penn Nursing

Free Sanitary Product Programs

• Menstrual health programs need a new focus in developing world, critic says
• France to make period products free for students
• 20 Places Around the World Where Governments Provide Free Period Products

Menstruation Education

• From periods to pain: five shame-free conversations to have now

• Metaverse: Essity Creates Virtual World Focused on Menstrual Education in Roblox

• Overcoming Myths: Menstruation Matters

• Periods 'should be talked about more often' in NI schools

• How Good Menstrual Hygiene Keeps Girls In School

• Empowering girls" Menstruation, Education and Health

• £4.2m funding boost to improve menstrual health in Ugandan schools

• Turning Periods into pathway

Feminine Hygiene Products and the Environment

Image from Goan Connection

• Yoona, the First Femtech Wellness Company, Launches a New Variant of Eco-Friendly Organic Sanitary Pads
• Pad made of dragon fruit peels by Vietnamese girls wins The Earth Prize 2022 | Society | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
• Single-use menstrual products and their alternatives
• How to make your own reusable sanitary pads
• This school team from Kerala has made low-cost biodegradable sanitary napkins using aquatic weeds
• Reusable, Biodegradable Sanitary Napkin Made of Banana Fibre!
• Plastic periods: menstrual products and plastic pollution
• This school team from Kerala has made low-cost biodegradable sanitary napkins using aquatic weeds
• How to make your own reusable sanitary pads
• Are Reusable Feminine Cloths Safe?
• What's in your pad or tampon
• Mexico City's Single-Use Plastic Ban Is Causing a Tampon Shortage
• Sustainable Period Products: How to Make Your Period Better for the Environment
• Sustainable Menstruation- The Impact of Menstrual Products on the Environment
• The people fighting pollution with plastic-free periods
• 5 Ways of Making Your Period More Sustainable
• The Ecological Impact of Feminine Products
• About Bloody Time
• Reusable, Biodegradable Sanitary Napkin Made of Banana Fibre!
• Menstrual Hygiene, Management, and Waste Disposal: Practices and Challenges Faced by Girls/Women of Developing Countries

Period Tax

• Tampon tax abolished from today

• Periodtax.org

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