LUSAKA: A Zambian law that entitles women to take one day off work a month when they have their period is stirring increasingly fierce debate in a country reluctant to discuss sexual health.
Discreetly called Mother’s Day, the 2015 law -- unique in Africa -- enables women to be absent from work without notice or a doctor’s note to help them cope with menstrual bleeding, pain and cramps.
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