The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to reduce tax paid on the importation of sanitary pads to promote menstrual health in the country.
According to her, poor access to sanitary materials, potable water and sanitation has been known to be a leading cause of loss of dignity for women and girls.She noted that countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Canada, and South Africa had reduced such taxes, adding that in the UK, it was compulsory for menstruation education to be taught as a subject in all schools.
“A number of countries have started to develop programmes and integrate menstrual hygiene management in their policies including removing taxes for sanitary materials that women use when they are menstruating.
clingdayok And diapers Please! Pampers, Molfix, Huggies and their other colleagues.
Nice one
Sanitary pads should be tax free to increase access to its use in African countries UNFPA UNICEF WHOAFRO girlsnotbrides WomensHealth
Let women make their own pads, after all our great grandparents used locally made cotton ball and survived to give birth to us with zero health consequence.
This is crazy...sanitary pads are made from cottonwood, underlined with thin plastic pad. Nobody can make this simple product in Nigeria. Now you asking FG to lower import duty so more money can exit your country to foreign country...creating more poverty. You're blind.
We should be subsidizing sanitary pads instead of taxing them