Period poverty: In Africa, women are being priced out of buying sanitary ware

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1970-01-01 08:00

BBC research reveals that women in Africa spend up to 13% of their income on menstrual products.

Women on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads, research by the BBC has found.

The BBC surveyed nine countries around Africa to see how affordable period products are. We compared the minimum wage to the local cost of the cheapest sanitary...