Several years ago, when Helen Yenser was a senior at Oakwood School, a private K-12 school in North Hollywood, she stood up in front of her class and talked about menstruating. “After I gave my ...

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) plans to install more sanitary pad making machines in an effort to enhance the livelihood of needy women. G.R. Chinthala, Chairman of ...

Ever since Padma Shri Arunachalam Muruganantham invented a low-cost sanitary pad making machine two decades ago, a menstrual hygiene revolution seems to be brewing across India. Apart from ...

Period. End of Sentence just won the Oscar for best documentary short subject at the 2019 Academy Awards. The 26-minute film, which you can watch on Netflix, centers on The Pad Project, an ...

A 25-minute documentary has surfaced on Netflix that aims to shed a light on global acceptance of menstruation, a lack of access to feminine hygiene products and female entrepreneurs who bring hope ...

Globally, 2.3 billion people cannot access basic sanitation services. For menstruating women who do not have things like a handwashing facility and soap at home, this poses a huge problem.

Commentary: The documentary Period. End of Sentence de-stigmatizes menstruation and allows us to celebrate our periods in our own way. In my case, through tampon doll and uterus pillows. Journalist ...

Saral has modified a sanitary pad-making machine to produce 50-70 three-ply disposable surgical masks per minute for less than US 6 cents each. Saral is partnering with a Mumbai-based auto firm to ...

Hemender Hoon was working with an NGO in Kolkata in 2015 when he discovered that menstrual hygiene and awareness was lacking in both rural and urban areas. “In rural areas, everyone knows that they do ...

Sanitary pads for women should be declared an essential commodity and their production should be allowed as there was an alarming demand and scarcity during the COVID-19 lockdown period, ‘Padman’ ...