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Health & Wellness · Bangladesh
BUET Gets a Sanitary-Pad Vending Machine. Menstrual Access Should Be Standard Campus Infrastructure
Female students and staff at BUET’s Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department can now buy sanitary pads through a mobile-payment vending machine. One machine will not solve period poverty—but it shows how universities can make menstruation an ordinary infrastructure issue rather than an emergency women manage privately.
Health & Wellness · Bangladesh
Tarash Is Talking Openly About Periods. Bangladesh Still Needs Affordable Products and Private Facilities
Women and adolescent girls in a Sirajganj community joined an open discussion on menstruation this week and received sanitary pads. Awareness helps dismantle stigma—but Bangladesh’s menstrual-health challenge is also about affordability, school facilities, privacy and reliable access to products.