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Dr. Mona’s Period Poverty project gives 12,000 menstrual products to Flint students
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
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FLINT, MI A team of medical and pediatric residents and Flint Southwestern High School staff delivered more than 12,000 menstrual products to a local high school.
The goal of the Period Poverty project, spearheaded by Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, is to reduce school absences because of a lack of period supplies and the high cost of obtaining them. An often-ignored public health crisis, nearly one in five girls miss school for lack of period supplies, according to a MSU-Hurley Children’s Hospital press release.