{"id":235607,"date":"2026-06-07T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hlatywayo-pushes-for-wider-access-to-menstrual-health-products\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:19:59","slug":"zimbabwe-hlatywayo-pushes-for-wider-access-to-menstrual-health-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hlatywayo-pushes-for-wider-access-to-menstrual-health-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Hlatywayo Pushes for Wider Access to Menstrual Health Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Harare Province legislator Gladys Hlatywayo has called for increased access to menstrual hygiene products, safe sanitation facilities and comprehensive menstrual health education saying these are essential to improving the wellbeing and opportunities of girls and young women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking in Parliament, Hlatywayo said many girls continue to face challenges linked to inadequate access to menstrual hygiene products and information, a situation she warned could negatively affect their education and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare Province legislator Gladys Hlatywayo has called for increased access to menstrual hygiene products, safe sanitation facilities and comprehensive menstrual health education saying these are essential to improving the wellbeing and opportunities of girls and young women. Speaking in Parliament, Hlatywayo said many girls continue to face challenges linked to inadequate access to menstrual hygiene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[6450,258,256,5731,47250,23906,257,7418,16296,254,20564,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-health","tag-hlatywayo","tag-menstrual","tag-news","tag-products","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wider","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}