Africa: 'Dirty Red' - How Periods Have Been Stigmatised Through History to the Modern Day

[The Conversation Africa] About a year ago, at a friend's wedding, a fellow guest asked whether I knew that modern sanitary towels owe their origins to resourceful World War I field nurses who discovered the efficacy of repurposing military bandages as period pads. I did not.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Sustainable Development Women and Gender Source Type: news