Singapore: An Indian, who has invented a machine that can be used to make cheap sanitary pads, hopes that the device would be available in 70 developing countries by next year. "We will make the ...

Birgunj Metropolitan City has started installing sanitary pad machines at community schools of the city in Parsa. “As girls tend to leave their studies in the middle due to monthly-cycle-related ...

Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday announced in the legislative council that the BMC’s contract of installing 5,000 sanitary pad vending machines in public toilets has been truncated to ...

Mumbai Police along with an NGO, are going to install over 100 sanitary pad vending machines and incinerators for women police officers across the city, as part of a police welfare scheme. "Smart ...

In an important step towards improving menstrual hygiene, the western Indian city of Ajmer has become the first in the country to install sanitary napkin vending machines on a large scale. Around of ...

• Boxgirls Kenya did a survey and found out that a majority of the girls missed classes during their periods due to a lack of access to enough sanitary pads to sustain them through their entire cycle.

Maintaining menstrual hygiene is not easy in Bangladesh, where people often do not even utter its name because of the associated stigma and taboo. While young adults and adolescents associate it with ...

In a first of its kind initiative, the Mumbai Police has launched a project to install sanitary pad vending machines and incinerators in 140 spots across the city. Senior police officers said that the ...

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 ...

Female students of Dhaka University (DU) will be able to buy sanitary pads from Wednesday with the retail price from 10 vending machines installed in the campus. Each of the pads will cost Tk10, Dhaka ...