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  The Ghana Civil Society Organisation (CSO) platform on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has appealed to the government to remove taxes on sanitary pads to enhance menstrual hygiene and quality of life for all women in Ghana, especially young girls in schools. This would eliminate school absenteeism associated with the …

The Deputy Accra Regional Commander of the Narcotics Control Commission, Reas Hakim Oduro has made shocking revelations about how some youth in Ghana are getting addicted to hard drugs. He found it worrying that some youth have become dependent on hard drugs which, to them, give them an inexplicable euphoric …

The Health Director at the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region, Dr. Rubben Bedzra, has disclosed that, some teenagers in the district got pregnant for chasing over a Gh¢20.00 money for sanitary pad. According to him, most of the teenagers who reported to health facilities in the …

Some pupils of Weweso M/A Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi have revealed they save up portions of money given to them for food to purchase sanitary pads. The pupils lamented that the expensive cost of the hygienic pads on the market is worsening the discomfort associated with their monthly …

Ghanaian gospel musician, Gifty Adorye, aka Empress Gifty, has bemoaned the heavy attacks on women who wear hip pads. According to her, in a video that has since gone viral, only uncivilised people attack women who wear hip pads to enhance their beauty. “How can you be so uncivilised to look …

A stud conducted by the Upper West Regional Youth Parliament with funding support from Plan International Ghana has found that 83 per cent of adolescent girls in Wa East trade sex for money to buy sanitary towels during their period. The study was titled: ‘Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in …