Menstrual Hygiene

A local nonprofit wants to bring awareness to period poverty this week. In St. Louis, the issue affects roughly two-thirds of women.

Diapers aren’t luxury items, but they’re considered as such in Missouri’s tax code.

Nurses in schools across Missouri say their students struggle to afford period products and have missed school because of periods.

About 1 in 3 female students surveyed at a St. Louis County public high school reported they had missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy tampons or pads, often at least one day per month.

While some local jails already offered feminine hygiene products for free, at others cost was a barrier. State funding aimed to eliminate that

Christy Ferguson started the Mensi Project in 2018 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to donate unneeded menstrual products to someone who could use them. Now the university is funding the effort with the help of new legislation.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Thursday that will expand access to feminine hygiene products for impoverished and homeless women and college students.

The St. Louis County jail will now provide inmates with better menstrual pads and tampons free of charge.County Executive Sam Page last week signed an…

A report published in the latest issue of the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology surveyed low-income women in St. Louis and found that nearly…