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A period (menstruation) is normal vaginal bleeding that occurs every month for a person with a womb and ovaries. While menstrual products are hygienic products such as (sanitary pads, menstrual cups, tampons, reusable pads) used to collect a monthly flow of blood.

Period poverty occurs when someone cannot afford proper menstrual products. Period poverty is an extension of widespread poverty in Nigeria with over 40% of people living in poverty which amounted to approximately 83 million people, according to Statista. Priority is not given to educating young girls about their bodies and menstrual hygiene when they are only concerned about daily survival.

On average, women are on their period for about five days and use about three pads a day, a packet of 10 sanitary pads costs between N400 and N2,000, and women might need more than a packet for a month depending on the menstrual flow. A major cause of period poverty is the high cost of menstrual products. Many young women are strongly affected.

https://gazettengr.com/special-how-period-poverty-forces-nigerian-girls-women-to-use-rags-cloths-during-menstruation/

It's no longer hidden females now use rags as pads. What a shame of a society !

I don't know if it is poverty but many grand ma and great grand mothers in Nigeria have been using pieces of clothes as an alternative to pads before pads came.

Funny enough, some pads are made of very light materials or light foams that absorb liquids.

What i don't understand is it poverty that prevents this women from using branded pads or lack of access

To be a woman is not an easy task oo. Chaii

Hmm Rags and foam will not absorb properly and can cause infections!

Pads and tampons should have been made free for girls...This are one of the little things our first ladies are supposed to be doing!

Women really need help and deserve pity from the rest of us, not mockery. I find this news very disturbing.