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'Period poverty': Impregnated and infected with HIV at age 12 for want of sanitary pad

These are no tell-tales. These are real stories of girls and women exposed to sexual abuse and exploitation due to period poverty. Afia’s mother got sick when she was 12 years old. She had to move in to live with her aunty at Techiman where she was enrolled in a school. It was at the school she first had her menses, something she lacked knowledge about. She soiled her uniform and boys in her class made fun of her. ....

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