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New Zealand to Roll Out Free Period Products to All Students
The program, designed to reduce “period poverty,” will begin in June.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand and Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, right, the director general of health, at Parliament in Wellington last year.Credit.Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2021
AUCKLAND, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that all schools would make free menstrual products available to students for the next three years, adding New Zealand to the global effort to reduce “period poverty” a lack of access to pads or tampons that could negatively affect education, health or employment.
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Period Poverty: New Zealand Announces Free Menstrual Products for All Students Providing free period products at school is one way the government can directly address poverty.
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Lack of access to menstrual products is a result of poverty, leading thousands of low-income students to miss school when they have their period. People who menstruate should not have to choose between their education and managing their period. Help us end the stigma surrounding menstruation and take action to make sanitary products available to all here.
In an effort to acknowledge the necessity of equitable access to menstruation products, New Zealand is joining the growing global effort to make sanitary products free.