Period poverty

Menstrual Hygiene Day 2024 is on 28 May: taking on period poverty and period taboos, because menstruation matters. This Menstrual Hygiene Day, share a better period.

Find out about period poverty during humanitarian crises, and how ActionAid refugees to access menstrual products and end period poverty.

Our new poll shows that a third of women in the UK are too embarrassed to talk about their periods. So to open up the conversation and smash period taboos, we asked three amazing celebrities to spill the beans with their funniest period stories.