An Indian guy came up with a low cost option that now employs lots of Indian women in coops. We don’t need a federal bureau of tampons.
The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary
By Vibeke Venema
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978
What a fascinating story, that guy is quite an innovator. Notice that even in dirt-poor regions of India, the priority is to provide an affordable product that works, not a government handout.
Hard to imagine that still in the year 2014 attitudes about menstrual cycles in women are still so backwards and retrograde in places around the world...