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India: Taboos are bad for girls’ health

1 April
2015
, Volume
71, Number
2
The stigma around menstruation puts India’s adolescents at risk
Authors

Madhumita Das is a Senior Technical Specialist on Men and Masculinities and Anne Stangl is a Senior Behavioural Scientist with a focus on stigma and discrimination, both at the International Centre for Research on Women
Madhumita Das is a Senior Technical Specialist on Men and Masculinities and Anne Stangl is a Senior Behavioural Scientist with a focus on stigma and discrimination, both at the International Centre for Research on Women
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The low-cost safe cotton sanitary towels which were developed for use in rural areas. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
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