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If I Had Policy Power: What I Would Change About Menstrual Health in Nigeria
People ask me sometimes what winning looks like for BMB. And I always have a business answer ready. The products, the reach, the impact numbers, the women served. And that’s correct. But on an individual level, the winning I dream about is policy winning. The kind that doesn’t depend on one social enterprise doing its…
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The Tax on Menstrual Products Is a Tax on Being a Woman
If you are a Nigerian company importing menstrual products or the raw materials to produce them, you are paying import duties. Those duties then get folded into the cost of production, into the cost of goods, and eventually into the price on the shelf that Mama Adimchi in Rumuola market or Alimosho picks up and…
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Should Period Products Be Free?
(My honest opinion: No. But first hear me out before you fling me away.) I speak as a woman that runs a menstrual care company so, know that I live in the problem. There is a difference between a standard pad and an organic cotton, individually wrapped, dermatologically tested option that took a team of…
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