Studies carried out by the Ministry of Women, Family, and Community Development, involving teenagers and women from the B40 group around the capital, found 13.1 percent cannot afford to buy sanitary pads.

“This pilot study involved teenagers and women aged 13 to 24 in 13 People’s Housing Project communities and two Social Welfare Department institutions,” said Deputy Minister Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff.

She was...