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Tech startups, partners to destigmatise menstruation

Women need feminine hygiene products, and they need them every month. Sanicle, a tech start-up has created products and plans for low earning females. According to the makers, Sanicle’s products are 100% organic with a subscription- based distribution model.

The products called period boxes are developed by US based women-led tech start up, are customizable tampons, pads, and have helped create a conversation around the taboos surrounding feminine hygene. The destigmatisation process also was supported by a book, “The Period Passport: Conquering Period Poverty” written by Chaste Christopher Inegbedion and Yetunde Oluwafunmilayo Tola.

The book is a self-help guide to understanding all there is to know about periods. It also addresses how education, society could eradicate the many financial barriers, stigma, and poor education around menstrual cycles otherwise known as Period Poverty that have led to inadequate access to menstrual hygiene products and education for hundreds of millions of women around the world. Inegbedion says “Menstruation is an important phase in every woman’s life that signals growth and biophysical maturity. Unfortunately, minimal attention is paid to this aspect of women’s life.

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