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    "id": 902316,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/902316/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "(iv) ensure that women and girls have access to a range of menstrual hygiene management products; and, (v) ensure that counties include MHM in their County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) and County Health Strategic Plans (CHSPs) and have a dedicated budgetary allocation for MHM activities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even though the Policy is a good initiative to curb the problems women and girls face during menstruation, it needs to be revised to have pragmatic steps or activities to achieve the objects and action plans in the Policy. I believe the Policy should not be an academic research paper but a pragmatic strategy or framework that can be implemented to bring out the results which we are seeking. It is a concern that policies, laws and strategies are developed in this country but honoured more in breach than in practice. We have many good laws and policies gathering dust on shelves. I call upon the Government to zero-rate pads and sanitary towels in this country because that is gross violation of the rights of women to have access to menstrual health. We need the Policy to be operationalised so that we have menstrual health products zero-rated because women should not pay for menstruation which is a biological function over which they do not have control. I thank you."
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