Period poverty: In Africa, women are being priced out of buying sanitary ware

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

While Ghana was the country with the least affordable menstrual products of those we surveyed, women across Africa are struggling with "period poverty" - something activists are trying to change.

According to our research, a woman in Ghana earning a minimum wage of $26 a month would have to spend $3, or one in every $7 they make to buy two packets of sanitary towels containing eight pads.

Francisca Sarpong Owusu, a researcher at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) in Ghana, says many vulnerable girls and women are using cloth rags which they line with plastic sheets, cement paper bags and dried plantain stems when menstruating because they cannot afford disposable sanitary towels.

Many menstrual health activists say removing "tampon taxes" is one way to help women inch closer to accessing and affording sanitary products.

Across Africa, and the world, lack of access to menstrual hygiene products due to high cost or because they're not available in rural or remote areas has had a huge impact on millions of women.

South African campaigner Nokuzola lives with endometriosis, a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside it and can make menstruation very painful.

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"They can't afford modern products so they're slapping together imitations out of trash"

Did they not have a functioning system before tampons were invented?

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Meh. How many decades do menstral cups and reuaabele pads last?