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Radio 4,5 mins

Why ‘period poverty’ is a bigger problem than we think

Woman's Hour

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Girls in the UK are missing school because they are too poor to buy sanitary protection. Tina Leslie is a public health and charity worker who was contacted by a teacher in Leeds worried about her pupils - they talk to BBC Leeds reporter, Tracey Gee about period poverty.

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