Not everyone has access to sanitary products for their menstrual blood, and some women are resigned to staying isolated when they have their period.
“We have been to villages where the girls and women are banished to the forest or the cowshed when they are menstruating. They sit on their own, away from everyone else, and are not allowed to do anything.
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