Cloths: This was probably the most widely used method throughout history. Women would use rags ... The first disposable ...

More than 90% of Indian rural women use homemade cloth as a menstrual pad, as opposed to commercial sanitary products ... aged between 30 and 50 with no history of any cancer, who were physically ...

In parts of India, huge numbers of women don’t have access to sanitary napkins. When the founders of Saathi pads decided to try to tackle the problem, they wanted to do it in an eco-friendly way.

Sneh, 22, attended the awards ceremony where the film won an Oscar A film based on young women in an Indian village who make sanitary pads has won an Oscar for best documentary short. The BBC's ...

Every year, around 12.3 billion used sanitary pads are dumped in landfills in India, said a report by the environmental group Toxics Link. Each of these non-organic sanitary pads is equivalent to ...