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Zambia
Zambia also unveiled a program to provide free sanitary pads for girls in rural and peri-urban areas. In their 2017 budget, the program provided for 14,000 girls from vulnerable households in different districts.
“Our country like in many parts of Africa, reproductive health matters are treated as a taboo and with silence. This limits girls’ access to education as some fail to go to school due to lack of proper sanitary towels. In order to increase and retain attendance of girls in schools, Government will in 2017 commence distribution of free sanitary towels to girls in rural and peri-urban areas,” said the then finance minister Felix Mutati.
