India has exempted brand-label sanitary pads from being taxed to make them affordable, but more action is needed to propagate their use among millions of Indian women, campaigners say. A 12-percent ...

Once thrown away, disposable diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because they contain plastics and other synthetic polymers. But now, researchers are replacing these ...

With the rate at which the prices of sanitary pads are rising, we may just be returning to the days when women used rags, leaves, grasses, sat in water or on sand during their menses. Dorcas Egede ...