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Period poverty has a lot of obvious physical impacts associated with it. It is easy to understand how not having access to the tools that are needed to properly care for your body during menstruation could lead to people not participating in important activities like school or work or could lead to physical health problems if that lack of access compromises a menstruators’ hygiene. These are all tangible things that are easy to see and observe. It’s harder to understand just how much period poverty can also impact menstruators’ mental health.

Period poverty affects menstruators everywhere and in a number of ways that is so vast it can’t even be encompassed in this one article. But just because this problem is vast, it doesn’t mean that we can’t still do something about it. Follow along for the next 3 parts of our deep dive on Period Poverty to learn more about how period poverty can impact mental health, what affect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on period poverty, and best of all, what you can do to end period poverty. 

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