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In the free world, menstrual hygiene has been very difficult to practice among young girls and women, talk more of confined places like prisons and IDP camps.
In a country of over 2.6 million displaced people, with major numbers of them being females, many people have difficulties with feeding and shelter, not to mention those who can’t afford sanitary materials for their menstrual cycle.
Nigerian Prisons, now known as Correctional Services, which has 1,250 female inmates out of a total population of 65,824 inmates, isn’t left out of this mess as one of the inmates said, “less attention is given to female inmates by the public, so we get the same thing as our male counterparts. There’s a pretense as if menstruation doesn’t exist here, so we rely on our relatives, NGOs or pay exorbitant prices to get sanitary materials”.