How the tampon shortage is exacerbating period poverty in the US
Posted on July 5, 2022
What is period poverty and who does it affect?
Period poverty is the inability to access sufficient, quality menstrual products. And even before the recent price increases, many women in the U.S. were affected by period poverty. Unfortunately, we don’t have rigorous data on the extent or scale of period poverty across the country.
But a study I conducted in 2021 with colleagues at the CUNY School of Public Health found that the pandemic exacerbated the problem of period poverty. Loss of income as a result of the economic fallout of the pandemic was a strong predictor of menstrual product insecurity, especially for women already on low incomes or with lower formal education. Respondents to our survey indicated increased challenges when it came to accessing menstrual products.
https://globalcomment.com/how-the-tampon-shortage-is-exacerbating-period-poverty-in-the-us/