Period Poverty
Cross-source consensus on Period Poverty from 1 sources and 4 claims.
1 sources · 4 claims
Risks & contraindications
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Highlighted claims
- Period poverty is defined as the inability to manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Many girls still rely on cloth rags or tissues or depend on transactional sex or partners to obtain sanitary pads. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Being unable to afford sanitary pads intensified shame around menstruation. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics
- Some girls lacked even the undergarments needed to use sanitary pads, showing severe material deprivation. — Intersections of menstruation, gender-based violence and contraceptive use: qualitative insights from girls and young women’s experiences in western Kenyan family planning clinics