Tech Startup Sanicle, Others Partner To Destigmatize Menstruation

Women need feminine hygiene products, and they need them every month. Sanicle, a tech start-up has created products and plans for low earning females.

According to the makers, Sanicle’s products are 100% organic with a subscription-based distribution model.

The products called period boxes are developed by US based women-led tech start up, are customizable tampons, pads, and have helped create a conversation around the taboos surrounding feminine hygene.

The destigmatization process also was supported by a book, “The Period Passport: Conquering Period Poverty” written by Chaste Christopher Inegbedion and Yetunde Oluwafunmilayo Tola.

The book is a self-help guide to understanding all there is to know about periods. It also addresses how education, society could eradicate the many financial barriers, stigma, and poor education around menstrual cycles otherwise known as Period Poverty that have led to inadequate access to menstrual hygiene products and education for hundreds of millions of women around the world.

Inegbedion says “Menstruation is an important phase in every woman’s life that signals growth and biophysical maturity. Unfortunately, minimal attention is paid to this aspect of women’s life. Rather, menstruation is a cause for negative societal reactions that tend to reduce women’s self-esteem. What is natural and inevitable becomes a social burden for females in many African  associeties.”

He also explains that Period innovation is due for an update “there was a time when women got pumped about a new period tracking app, but the latest advancements with Sanicle working with other period technology organizations to provide on our platform in kicking these apps to the curb.

“At Sanicle, we advocate for school-going girls as regards their reproductive system. We also distribute Period Boxes to those girls in the most deprived circumstances. The problem that Sanicle is trying to address is real.”            

The products will be announced for release in Nigeria and the rest of Africa before the end of the year.