Period poverty: Perak plans to install sanitary napkin vending machines

Published: Feb 27, 2022 12:01 AM | Updated: Feb 27, 2022 2:49 AM

Perak plans to place sanitary napkin vending machines at strategic areas as one of the measures to address the issue of period poverty among adolescents and women from the B40 group in the state.

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