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France Makes Menstrual Products Free for Students, Here's How Other Nations are Fighting Period Poverty
News 18The French government on Tuesday announced that it would be making period products available for free for students in the country. French Higher Education Minister Frederique Vidal said that tampon and sanitary pad vending machines, sanitary towels and other menstrual products will be made available free of cost for students at the student residences and university health services in the next few weeks. ‘Period poverty’ is defined when there is a significant lack of menstrual hygiene and other essential sanitary products along with toilets and clean water. Scotland last year became the first country in the world to make period products free for all, thus kickstarting a movement that inspired feminists and anti-period poverty campaigners around the world to also take up the issue with other governments. Schools in New Zealand will also start offering free period products from June as authorities have felt female students have been forced to skip school during periods because of non affordability of menstrual products like tampons and sanitary pads.
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