{"id":57920,"date":"2024-04-14T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57920"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:36:41","slug":"homeless-women-using-t-shirts-and-old-menstrual-products-for-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/14\/homeless-women-using-t-shirts-and-old-menstrual-products-for-periods\/","title":{"rendered":"UK:Homeless women using t-shirts and old menstrual products for periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25684\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty-770x514.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/period-poverty.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/homelessness-rough-sleeping-dwp-benefits-b2504611.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Homeless\u00a0<\/a>women in the UK are being forced to use sponges, old clothes and used menstrual products during their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/tampon-tax-savings-period-poverty-b2451077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">periods<\/a>, according to first-of-its-kind research.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/lifestylegeneral\/homeless-women-using-t-shirts-and-old-menstrual-products-for-periods\/ar-BB1lpfqA?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=af2657c09a9b410994e0d0b7cec12cbb&amp;ei=71\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Homeless\u00a0women in the UK are being forced to use sponges, old clothes and used menstrual products during their\u00a0periods, according to first-of-its-kind research.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/period-poverty.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57934,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions\/57934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}