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How do you reconcile your claim that there is "no evidence girls miss significant school because of lack of period care" with the statemment in the article that:

"Kenya's Education Ministry estimates that girls miss a total of 156 school days during four years of high school because they skip classes during their periods."

Where are you getting your data from?




Not OP, but politicians aren't scientists and claim all sorts of things for a variety of reason.

They mentioned a DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/669121

The abstract: The provision of toilets and menstrual supplies appears to be a promising strategy to promote adolescent girls’ school attendance and performance in less developed countries. In this article, we use the first round of the Malawi Schooling and Adolescent Survey (MSAS) to examine the individual- and school-level factors associated with menstruation-related school absenteeism. Although one-third of female students reported missing at least 1 day of school during their previous menstrual period, our data suggest that menstruation accounts only for a small proportion of all female absenteeism and does not create a gender gap in absenteeism. We find no evidence for school-level variance in menstruation-related absenteeism, suggesting that absenteeism due to menstruation is not sensitive to school environments. Rather, coresidence with a grandmother and spending time on schoolwork at home are associated with lower odds of absence during the last menstrual period.


So, that's an abstract single study from Malawi that is coming up for 10 years old and I don't personally have enough information to know whether Malawi is a good proxy for Kenya.

But to use this to dismiss Kenya's own statements is weak and "politicians aren't scientists and claim all sorts of things for a variety of reason" (aka, I don't believe it) isn't sufficient to make strong claims that there is no evidence


Politician are not believable in countries that aren't coming so low in the corruption index. Kenya is about 124th

Obviously skipping school because of periods is not necessarily related to lack of menstrual products, as the DOI indicates it's not.

Menstrual care is a well documented NGO program tried around the world. Do you have a DOI where it has worked? Where is your data coming from?

Where is the Kenya data? What happened when the tax was removed 10 years ago? If it matters then that will have enacted a change you should see school data.

Menstrual cups are 50 years old. Cheap. You don't need many. Why are adults already not using them? Were in developing countries are they used?

How does it relate to virginity, specifically the hymen? That kinda seems important when dealing with children in conservative societies.




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