LONDON, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ugandan schoolgirl Auma got her first period she asked her mother for sanitary pads. Her mother suggested she find herself a husband to pay for them.

Stella Nyanzi's latest run-in with the regime of President Museveni began with a fight for free sanitary pads for school-age girls. Then she wrote... Battle Over Free Sanitary Pads Lands Ugandan ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – School attendance improves when girls in sub-Saharan Africa are taught about menstruation and given free sanitary towels, boosting their job prospects and ...

What kind of society can promote the issuance of free condoms yet a condom is used out of voluntary desire, and deny girls menstrual pads yet menstruation is not voluntary? Uganda’s next revolution ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - School attendance improves when girls in sub-Saharan Africa are taught ...