Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

by Rose George

Then conservative Christian ideology arrived from the United States along with PEPFAR money and found a receptive home in President Museveni and his wife, and condoms were burned, and HIV came back.

menstrual cups (plastic devices that gather blood and are thought sustainable, including by everyone who writes to me after I publish anything on periods and urges me to try one).

As two menstrual experts at UNICEF India told me over lunch one day in the office canteen in Delhi, while other diners worked on their food and blocked their ears, rags are often a luxury. In rural areas, people wear polyester now, so women and girls have little access to absorbent cotton cloth.