{"id":87344,"date":"2026-04-03T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87344"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:10:01","slug":"sponsored-the-independent-2-2m-followers-1-in-10-uk-women-face-period-poverty-forcing-some-to-take-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/sponsored-the-independent-2-2m-followers-1-in-10-uk-women-face-period-poverty-forcing-some-to-take-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 10 UK women face period poverty forcing some to take health risks"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZLn9f.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A stack of sanitary towels next to a taller stack of coins. Illustrating period poverty and unaffordability of sanitary materials for many women world\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than one in ten\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">women<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">UK<\/a>\u00a0struggled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/period-products-english-schools-government-scheme-b2708813.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">to afford period products in the last year<\/a>, a new survey has revealed, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/period-poverty-tampons-toxic-shock-syndrome-b2346455.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">some forced to take dangerous health risks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/1-in-10-uk-women-face-period-poverty-forcing-some-to-take-health-risks\/ar-AA1ZL7tr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69cfe91eab6a4eec87329fe5e71a3aaa&amp;cvpid=e70dc9a40afc4c89aececd7ad536a33b&amp;ei=30\">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>More than one in ten\u00a0women\u00a0in the\u00a0UK\u00a0struggled\u00a0to afford period products in the last year, a new survey has revealed, with\u00a0some forced to take&#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-87344","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\/87344","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=87344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87349,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87344\/revisions\/87349"}],"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=87344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}