YOUNG girls and women from low-income families struggle with health and hygiene issues.
This according to a release from the United National Congress (UNC) Women’s Arm stated on Thursday, in support of the Soroptimist International Esperance call to implement measures to decrease the price of feminine products.
The Women’s Arm stated that noted the rising cost of living in Trinidad and Tobago and claimed Government’s continued lackadaisical attitude to bring much-needed relief to those most vulnerable in society.
The release stated, “‘Period Poverty’ is a worldwide public health issue that has been placed on the back burner by this Government for far too long, whilst young girls and women from low-income households continue to struggle with health and hygiene issues.”
The Women’s Arm called on both the ministers of health and social development to see period poverty as a public health issue desperately in need of addressing, with sanitary products seen not as a luxury item but a necessity.
