Menstruation and social stigma in Bangladesh
"When I was 15, I had sent my younger brother to the nearby pharmacy to get me a packet of sanitary napkins. He came back without having it wrapped in its usual brown packaging, and I lashed out at him out of sheer embarrassment. Now that I am approaching my twenties and have a better understanding of all this, I feel guilty," says Rehnuma Choudhury*, a freshman in a