Period poverty: Scotland to become first country in world to provide free sanitary products | 5 News

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► Women spend around £5,000 over a lifetime on period products but not everyone can afford them, leading to so-called 'period poverty'. Now, Scotland is about to become the first country in the world to make sanitary products freely available in all public buildings.

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