Comfort Zone : Menstrual hygiene – let’s break the bloody taboo!

By Comfort Mussa Ever since the government of Cameroon banned the use of non biodegradable plastic bags, like other Cameroonians I grapple with the insufficiency and high cost of the alternatives. Shop owners often do not provide packaging for goods bought. Customers have to purchase biodegradable plastic bags at the shops or bring their plastic/paper bags from home. However, when I go to the shops to buy sanitary towels, without asking the shop owners will wrap it up carefully in a black plastic bag or news paper. Some shop owners say, pads are too private to be exposed unlike other sanitary…