sanitary pad

"I was forced to remove my pants and sanitary pad - which meant I just had to bleed into the clothing," she says.

That it happens jumping the subway turnstile, however, with the only available bandage a sanitary pad, lends the scene a knowing metaphor-meets-irony wittiness about its very themes that’s ultimately worth smiling about, as Feña appealingly does in the moment, too.

They also said some detainees were forced to remove their sanitary pad or tampon during their period and squat or squat jump.

It was a "rigid sales environment" where being away from your desk "was seen as a bad thing", said Miss Paige, adding that going to the toilet to change a sanitary pad would have been difficult.

Now Orwoba receives calls from organizations that want to make menstruation products accessible to the poor, including a British firm that wants to put up sanitary pad dispensers in public toilets.