When a well-read, analytical, and endlessly curious friend recently confessed ignorance to what period poverty is, I became aware of how widespread it is for this problem to be overlooked.

This lack of access to period products is often referred to as ‘period poverty’ and there is low awareness of its global prevalence. It can lead to missing school, confidence-building ...

Britain launched a global “period poverty” fund and task force yesterday to ensure sanitary products are available to all women and girls by 2050 and to tackle the “shame” around menstruation.