The government will launch this year on an experimental basis the distribution of free periodic protection to women in precarious situations, announced Wednesday evening the offices of Marlène Schiappa and Christelle Dubos, based on two parliamentary reports.
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The Secretaries of State responsible respectively for Gender Equality and Solidarity and Health " welcome " in a press release the report on the taboo of the rules published Tuesday by deputies Laëtitia Romeiro Dias (LREM) and Bénédicte Taurine (LFI ). Like the one submitted in November by Senator Patricia Schillinger (LREM), this report " makes the fight against menstrual precariousness and the access of all women to hygienic protection a priority, in particular, " they note.
Stressing moreover that the association Elementary rules estimates at 1.7 million the number of women victims of menstrual precariousness in France, the two secretaries of State " announce the experimentation as of 2020 of the gratuitousness of hygienic protections in several collective places " , an experiment “ endowed with a million euros ”. In their report, the deputies recommend the installation of distributors of menstrual protection in certain public places, to which homeless women could have access thanks to prepaid cards.
Among their 47 recommendations are also measures to combat the lack of information on the subject, especially in colleges, or by clear information from industry on the use of certain protections and the risk of toxic shock.
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