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Distribution of sanitary pads- evidence based intervention and clueless minority.

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  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 9 years ago

    Did I hear the NPP was distributing School Uniforms for pupils in the Asante region?

    They should add Sanitary Pads to it, what a bunch of hypocrites?

  • Mends. The Lone Ranger. 9 years ago

    Zakaria, I remember you as a bright student even though one of the ugliest women on campus [ UCC ] in the early eighties, but never did I know that you're a dire hard NDC. You see sometimes you educated women in society, inc ...
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  • Tweaa 9 years ago

    Daaaaaaaamn, mean calling her ugly but funny as hell

  • IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

    A good policy to supply sanitary pads. Changing facilities are equally needed.

    But empowering the girls' families may equally enable the family to supply these items privately. After all, menses and menstruation as a whole ...
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  • Emmanuel 9 years ago

    truly said, but for all you know its the opposition who brought it out to ill the ways of this government. we just have to be patriotic as individual and stop discrimination and pointing fingers because i don't think it will ...
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  • diwurah 9 years ago

    Mr Lone Ranger, I think you took a big wrong leap in judging. Dr Mawia is a male and I think you pointed your gun in a wrong direction.
    Sorry, you goofed.

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    This is as stupid reaearch as they come and the so-called economic gateway is a myth concoted by partisan scholars like. Yes, What keeps girls out of school includes rape, beatings, sitting under trees, untrained teachers, in ...
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  • KOGYAM 9 years ago

    THANK YOU , CORRECT FOR 100%

  • Akos 9 years ago

    Earlier this year, a teacher fell into a latrine pit due to the really bad condition of the toilet. Kids still studying under tree & incomplete buildings, some schools are without water, while teachers unable to teach because ...
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  • HAZOR 9 years ago

    The authoress did not even site a single country as example it president supply sanitary pads to girls.I hope presidents all over the world to hear that Ghana president John Dramani Mahama is now a sanitary pads supplier to ...
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  • huzaifa 9 years ago

    countries all over the world have no problem with such issues because they see it as a moral thing to do. You only know what your pro anti-government journalist tell you, why don't you research on the journals he mentioned an ...
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  • NAKED 9 years ago

    Well said. correct for million points.

  • mojingles 9 years ago

    Akadu, you stupid bottom feeder; what has the provision of sanitary pads to poor school girls got to do with northerners? You are, by all indications, an unrepentant hater of northerners, a choice that eventually diminishes y ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    I am in just celebrating your piece!

  • Baneye 9 years ago

    Are you serious? Dr. Zakaria do honestly and sincerely believe you are making the right decision for mother Ghana. Please, search your heart and remember there will come a day where you would have to stand before your God and ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    THE ARTICLE BELOW IS WHAT IS FOCING GIRLS TO QUIT SCHOOL!
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    Sex Sage Stories in the Sissala East District is Gradually been Confirmed.


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  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago

    PAD PANDERING FOR POSITION IN NDC TO LOOT.

    I watch this guy on joynews TV and he does not make sense. He is always parroting some stupid stuff with no relevance to the matter at stake.

    He is trying so hard to get some ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    "A good number of girls in Ghana do not attend school when menstruating."
    Is this a new phenomenon? Were girls in Ghana, say in the 60's and in the 70's, able to attend school when they were in their periods?

    Why not ask ...
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  • Steve 9 years ago

    Previously in 1960s many girls then women were not attending school at all. They were pushing to kitchens to help and learn from their mothers how to cook. Some were given to men for early cultural marriage especially in the ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Steve, all it takes is one person to testify.

  • GoodNigerian 9 years ago

    I think Govt should rather build a factory and produce the pads that is if world bank would allow it

  • Kojo Darko 9 years ago

    Seriously , thought you will list other challenges associated with girl education and then you can prioritise those issues. Political as always, Loan for this purpose? While we are already complaining about interest payment? ...
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  • Kwame VS. Kofi 9 years ago

    volunteer to be a tester on behalf of the Parliament. All girls will be examined before giving them the pads, to avoid a miss-use and to make shure that only the needy girls will receive tax payer fonded pads....ha, ha, ha,.

  • Soothsayer 9 years ago

    In some communities,it is a taboo for females in their periods to mingle with their male counterparts, cook or touch any public thing. Pile their under with 100 pads but she will not go to school. Period.

  • Dede 9 years ago

    Ha ha na true. Some girls use the 'time of the month' as an excuse for not going to school. I'm one of them & sanitary pads were abundant in my household.

  • Einstein 9 years ago

    Ayeekooooooooo. Good article. But please is this impact worth a loan? Long term policy is government business not this short term. Let us measure this policy over the 5 years and determine the impact again. There is no clean ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Pads palaver and politics all require reading and thinking, and not knee-jerk reaction nor emotionalism .

  • CONCERNED PARENT 9 years ago

    If there is any single EVIL in this country that we need to deal with, it this group called NPP. Recently, they went on air shouting hoarses that they have distributed school uniforms to school children. Not too long before t ...
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  • Emmanuel 9 years ago

    Our way of governance has never given room for the opposition to spill out the truth, when i first heard of it, I was shocked but when i studied the document and realized its end game then I came to a conclusion that it’s a ...
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  • Sam, Bern 9 years ago

    Great work! The the educated minds be separated from the educated but still lacking understanding and refusing to use their education live forever in the ignorance

  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


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  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


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  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


    ...
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  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


    ...
    read full comment

  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


    ...
    read full comment

  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


    ...
    read full comment

  • makamama 9 years ago

    I wonder how these NDC hollow "dr" get their credentials. No need to go into lengthy arguments with Zakaria but just to point his silliness to him.

    1) SANITARY PADS POTENTIAL CUASE UTERINE CANCER/OVARIAN CANCER.


    ...
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  • Baneye 9 years ago

    Dr.Zakaria

  • me 9 years ago

    IS there not evidence that people don't have houses to sleep in? Why don't you share houses, moron.

  • Kwame VS. Kofi 9 years ago

    I call this NDC Job-creation! Soon we will see Pad-Inspectors roaming around in schools!