{"id":3924,"date":"2019-07-22T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"the-quest-to-make-sanitary-pads-accessible-by-all-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/22\/the-quest-to-make-sanitary-pads-accessible-by-all-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest To Make Sanitary Pads Accessible By All Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Edwin Ashimwe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2013, the East\nAfrican Legislative Assembly (EALA) passed a resolution urging all partner\nstates to waive taxes on sanitary pads so as to increase their availability and\naffordability for young girls, but this remains unachieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN estimates one in 10 girls\nfrom Sub-Saharan Africa miss school during their menstrual cycle, with some\nmissing out on 20 per cent of their education period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya, a global pioneer on\nthe issue, removed the tax in 2004, and allocates about $3 million annually for\nthe distribution of free sanitary pads to girls in low-income communities.\nThis, therefore, ensures good health, education and well-being to less\nprivileged females\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/quest-make-sanitary-pads-accessible-all-women\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edwin Ashimwe In August 2013, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) passed a resolution urging all partner states to waive taxes on sanitary pads so as to increase their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}