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                                <title><![CDATA[ Period poverty not at worrying level, says women development minister ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ Nancy Shukri says the government is providing sanitary napkins to target groups like the Orang Asli and B40. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Free pads at office just the first step, says health minister Zaliha ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Free pads in your office won't help solve period poverty, new health minister told ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Period poverty continues despite naysayers ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ An advocacy group says the root issue is that people are still unable to afford even basic necessities such as pads. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 13% of teenage girls in KL can’t afford to buy sanitary pads, ministry studies show ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:52:46 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The women, family and community development ministry says it has held awareness programmes on the issue. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Awareness slowly rising about period poverty ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:00:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Period poverty afflicts urban poor as pandemic continues ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 03:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Many do not have even the basic necessities for personal hygiene, a situation that could turn worse as the Covid-19 pandemic takes its toll on the finances of the urban poor. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Scotland becomes first country to make period products free ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 04:43:25 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Period poverty, when women cannot afford basic period essentials, is an issue that affects women and girls around the world. ]]></description>
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